[Question] queue_job: run multi-company

[Saran440]

I have a multi-company setup with 5 companies,
and I’m running queue_job with the root channel, configured with root=1

Current Behavior:

When each company runs a job at the same time, I observe the following:

• queue1, company1 → started
• queue2, company1 → pending
• queue3, company2 → pending
• queue4, company3 → pending
• queue5, company4 → pending
• queue6, company5 → pending

As a result, queue6 has to wait until all previous jobs (1–5) are completed, even though they belong to different companies.

Desired Behavior:

I want each company to be able to run one job at a time independently, like this:

• queue1, company1 → started
• queue2, company1 → pending
• queue3, company2 → started
• queue4, company3 → started
• queue5, company4 → started
• queue6, company5 → started

Question:

Is it possible to configure queue_job to run one concurrent job per company (instead of globally queuing everything under the root channel)?
Or is there a recommended way to isolate queues by company?

[amh-mw]

Using the res_company_code ¹ module makes it easy to create each job with a company-specific channel, i.e.

self.with_delay(channel=self.env.company.code)._my_method()

Unfortunately, the root:1 channel configuration guarantees that only one job will ever run at a time, so that would need to be increased to root:5,codeA:1,codeB:1,codeC:1,codeD:1,codeE:1.

I have some work in progress ² that will simplify this configuration to root:5:subcapacity=1.

Footnotes

1. https://github.com/OCA/multi-company/tree/18.0/res_company_code ↩

2. https://github.com/OCA/queue/pull/767 ↩

[Saran440]

@amh-mw Thank you for your answer. I will check it.