Improve behaviour of background workers #2312
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This PR improves the behaviour of the job runners. It adds a separate "performance" runner which can be scaled independently, and which takes care of the CPU/MEM intensive jobs like GeometricAnalysis and FileConversion.
Default scaling is that there is only one performance runner - this avoids the entire server becoming CPU-saturated when those jobs are queued up.
Concurrency can be controlled with
DEFAULT_WORKER_CONCURRENCY
(default 4) andPERFORMANCE_WORKER_CONCURRENCY
(default 1)It also reinstates sidekiq's retry functionality to handle things like database pool exhaustion.