Change max-job size of beanstalkd - beanstalkd

Question

Does somebody how to change the max-job size of beanstalkd ?
I have the problem that I get the message JOB_TOO_BIG and at Adding Job to beanstalkd, it says that the default size is 65k.
Does somebody know how to change that ?
EDIT:
my beanstalkd init-script in the folder /etc/init.d looks like the following (I added the -z option to increase the job size):
#!/bin/sh
#
# Copyright (c) 2007 Javier Fernandez-Sanguino <jfs#debian.org>
#
# This is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
# published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2,
# or (at your option) any later version.
#
# This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License with
# the Debian operating system, in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL; if
# not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place,
# Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: beanstalkd
# Required-Start: $remote_fs $network $local_fs
# Required-Stop: $remote_fs $network $local_fs
# Should-Start: $named
# Should-Stop:
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description: in-memory workqueue service
# Description: beanstalk is a simple, fast, queueing server. Its
# interface is generic, but was originally designed
# for reducing the latency of page views in high-volume
# web applications by running time-consuming tasks
# asynchronously.
### END INIT INFO
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
DAEMON=/usr/bin/beanstalkd # Introduce the server's location here
NAME=beanstalkd # Introduce the short server's name here
DESC="in-memory queueing server" # Introduce a short description here
LOGDIR=/var/log/beanstalkd # Log directory to use
BEANSTALKD_LISTEN_ADDR=0.0.0.0
BEANSTALKD_LISTEN_PORT=11300
PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid
test -x $DAEMON || exit 0
. /lib/lsb/init-functions
# Default options, these can be overriden by the information
# at /etc/default/$NAME
DAEMON_OPTS="-l $BEANSTALKD_LISTEN_ADDR -p $BEANSTALKD_LISTEN_PORT -z 550000000000" # Additional options given to the server
#DIETIME=10 # Time to wait for the server to die, in seconds
# If this value is set too low you might not
# let some servers to die gracefully and
# 'restart' will not work
STARTTIME=1 # Time to wait for the server to start, in seconds
# If this value is set each time the server is
# started (on start or restart) the script will
# stall to try to determine if it is running
# If it is not set and the server takes time
# to setup a pid file the log message might
# be a false positive (says it did not start
# when it actually did)
#LOGFILE=$LOGDIR/$NAME.log # Server logfile
DAEMONUSER=root #beanstalkd # Users to run the daemons as. If this value
# is set start-stop-daemon will chuid the server
# Include defaults if available
if [ -f /etc/default/$NAME ] ; then
. /etc/default/$NAME
fi
# Check that the user exists (if we set a user)
# Does the user exist?
if [ -n "$DAEMONUSER" ] ; then
if getent passwd | grep -q "^$DAEMONUSER:"; then
# Obtain the uid and gid
DAEMONUID=`getent passwd |grep "^$DAEMONUSER:" | awk -F : '{print $3}'`
DAEMONGID=`getent passwd |grep "^$DAEMONUSER:" | awk -F : '{print $4}'`
else
log_failure_msg "The user $DAEMONUSER, required to run $NAME does not exist."
exit 0
fi
fi
set -e
running_pid() {
# Check if a given process pid's cmdline matches a given name
pid=$1
name=$2
[ -z "$pid" ] && return 1
[ ! -d /proc/$pid ] && return 1
cmd=`cat /proc/$pid/cmdline | tr "\000" "\n"|head -n 1 |cut -d : -f 1`
# Is this the expected server
[ "$cmd" != "$name" ] && return 1
return 0
}
running() {
# Check if the process is running looking at /proc
# (works for all users)
# No pidfile, probably no daemon present
[ ! -f "$PIDFILE" ] && return 1
pid=`cat $PIDFILE`
running_pid $pid $DAEMON || return 1
return 0
}
start_server() {
# Start the process using the wrapper
if [ "x$START" != "xyes" -a "x$START" != "xtrue" ]; then
echo ""
echo "beanstalkd not configured to start, please edit /etc/default/beanstalkd to enable"
exit 0
fi
if [ -z "$DAEMONUSER" ] ; then
start_daemon -p $PIDFILE $DAEMON $DAEMON_OPTS
errcode=$?
else
# if we are using a daemonuser then change the user id
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE \
--chuid $DAEMONUSER --make-pidfile --oknodo \
--background --exec $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_OPTS
errcode=$?
fi
return $errcode
}
stop_server() {
# Stop the process using the wrapper
if [ -z "$DAEMONUSER" ] ; then
killproc -p $PIDFILE $DAEMON
errcode=$?
else
# if we are using a daemonuser then look for process that match
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE \
--user $DAEMONUSER \
--exec $DAEMON
errcode=$?
fi
rm -f $PIDFILE
return $errcode
}
reload_server() {
[ ! -f "$PIDFILE" ] && return 1
pid=pidofproc $PIDFILE # This is the daemon's pid
# Send a SIGHUP
kill -1 $pid
return $?
}
force_stop() {
# Force the process to die killing it manually
[ ! -e "$PIDFILE" ] && return
if running ; then
kill -15 $pid
# Is it really dead?
sleep "$DIETIME"s
if running ; then
kill -9 $pid
sleep "$DIETIME"s
if running ; then
echo "Cannot kill $NAME (pid=$pid)!"
exit 0
fi
fi
fi
rm -f $PIDFILE
}
case "$1" in
start)
log_daemon_msg "Starting $DESC " "$NAME"
# Check if it's running first
if running ; then
log_progress_msg "apparently already running"
log_end_msg 0
exit 0
fi
if start_server ; then
# NOTE: Some servers might die some time after they start,
# this code will detect this issue if STARTTIME is set
# to a reasonable value
[ -n "$STARTTIME" ] && sleep $STARTTIME # Wait some time
if running ; then
# It's ok, the server started and is running
log_end_msg 0
else
# It is not running after we did start
log_end_msg 1
fi
else
# Either we could not start it
log_end_msg 1
fi
;;
stop)
log_daemon_msg "Stopping $DESC" "$NAME"
if running ; then
# Only stop the server if we see it running
errcode=0
stop_server || errcode=$?
log_end_msg $errcode
else
# If it's not running don't do anything
log_progress_msg "apparently not running"
log_end_msg 0
exit 0
fi
;;
force-stop)
# First try to stop gracefully the program
$0 stop
if running; then
# If it's still running try to kill it more forcefully
log_daemon_msg "Stopping (force) $DESC" "$NAME"
errcode=0
force_stop || errcode=$?
log_end_msg $errcode
fi
;;
restart|force-reload)
log_daemon_msg "Restarting $DESC" "$NAME"
errcode=0
stop_server || errcode=$?
# Wait some sensible amount, some server need this
[ -n "$DIETIME" ] && sleep $DIETIME
start_server || errcode=$?
[ -n "$STARTTIME" ] && sleep $STARTTIME
running || errcode=$?
log_end_msg $errcode
;;
status)
log_daemon_msg "Checking status of $DESC" "$NAME"
if running ; then
log_progress_msg "running"
log_end_msg 0
else
log_progress_msg "apparently not running ... "
log_end_msg 1
exit 0
fi
;;
reload)
log_warning_msg "Reloading $NAME daemon: not implemented (use restart)."
;;
*)
N=/etc/init.d/$NAME
echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|force-stop|restart|force-reload|status}" >&2
exit 1
;;
esac
exit 0
And my beanstalkd.conf file which is in the folder /etc/default looks like the following:
## Defaults for the beanstalkd init script, /etc/init.d/beanstalkd on
## Debian systems. Append "-b /var/lib/beanstalkd" for persistent
## storage.
BEANSTALKD_LISTEN_ADDR=0.0.0.0
BEANSTALKD_LISTEN_PORT=11300
# create the journal path before use !!!
BEANSTALKD_JOURNAL_PATH="/var/lib/beanstalkd"
DAEMON_OPTS="-l $BEANSTALKD_LISTEN_ADDR -p $BEANSTALKD_LISTEN_PORT -z 550000000000 -b $BEANSTALKD_JOURNAL_PATH -V"
## Uncomment to enable startup during boot.
START=yes
best regards,

Answer 1

The answer by slickorange in the following link might help you:
JOB_TOO_BIG Pheanstalk - what can be done?
The size of beanstalkd job can be increased by adding the following line (or uncomment the existing BEANSTALKD_EXTRA line and edit it):
BEANSTALKD_EXTRA="-z 524280"
The size is specified in bytes, default size being 65535 bytes.
Restart beanstalkd after making the change:
sudo service beanstalkd restart

Answer 2

On Debian 8.7 x64 editing the settings in /etc/default/beanstalkd works. A bug probably.

Answer 3

I have systemctl in Debian 8 and my config looks slightly different from what is suggested here in other answers to increase the limit. This is what I did:
Edit the beanstalkd file in:
nano /etc/sysconfig/beanstalkd
Then increase the limit for MAX_JOB_SIZE from default 65535 to 524280
MAX_JOB_SIZE=-z 524280
Restart beanstalkd and check the status:
service beanstalkd restart
systemctl status beanstalkd

Answer 4

There are settings for the daemon
-b DIR wal directory
-f MS fsync at most once every MS milliseconds (use -f0 for "always fsync")
-F never fsync (default)
-l ADDR listen on address (default is 0.0.0.0)
-p PORT listen on port (default is 11300)
-u USER become user and group
-z BYTES set the maximum job size in bytes (default is 65535)
-s BYTES set the size of each wal file (default is 10485760)
(will be rounded up to a multiple of 512 bytes)
-c compact the binlog (default)
-n do not compact the binlog
-v show version information
-V increase verbosity
-h show this help
So based on your Linux, you should find out where this is kept and change it. Usually it's under beanstalkd.conf