// BusyThread.java
// (C) 2008 by Michael Peter Christen; mc@yacy.net, Frankfurt a. M., Germany
// first published 27.03.2008 on http://yacy.net
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package net.yacy.kelondro.workflow;


public interface BusyThread extends WorkflowThread {

    /**
     * sets a sleep time before execution of the job-loop
     * @param milliseconds
     */
    public void setStartupSleep(long milliseconds);

    /**
     * sets a sleep time for pauses between two jobs if the job returns false (idle)
     * @param milliseconds
     * @return
     */
    public long setIdleSleep(long milliseconds);

    /**
     * sets a sleep time for pauses between two jobs if the job returns true (busy)
     * @param milliseconds
     * @return
     */
    public long setBusySleep(long milliseconds);
 
    /**
     * sets minimum required amount of memory for the job execution
     * @param freeBytes
     */
    public void setMemPreReqisite(long freeBytes);
 
    /**
     * defines if the thread should obey the intermission command
     * @param obey
     */
    public void setObeyIntermission(boolean obey);
 
    /**
     * @return the total number of cycles of job execution with idle-result
     */
    public long getIdleCycles();
 
    /**
     * @return the total number of cycles of job execution with busy-result
     */
    public long getBusyCycles();
 
    /**
     * @return the total number of cycles where a job execution was omitted
     *         because of memory shortage
     */
    public long getOutOfMemoryCycles();
 
    /**
     * @return the total time that this thread has slept so far
     */
    public long getSleepTime();
 
    /**
     * the thread is forced to pause for a specific time
     * if the thread is busy meanwhile, the pause is ommitted
     * @param pause
     */
    public void intermission(long pause);
 
    /**
     * performes one job procedure; this loopes until terminate() is called
     * @return true if it has done something, false if it is idle and does not expect to work on more for a longer time
     */
    public boolean job() throws Exception;

    /**
     * is called when an outOfMemoryCycle is performed
     * this method should try to free some memory, so that the job can be executed
     */
    public void freemem();

}