jobs that do not count to rate limit

[sakari]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I use queue rate limiting to stay within limits of an external API I'm calling. Some jobs however do not require this call, eg the job might be too old and I just want to fail it. These jobs however, as far as I can see, count to the rate limit. So in the worst case a bunch of unimportant NOOP jobs that finish immediately prevent actual useful work from being done. In normal operation this would not be issue -- but in case there are some hickups that stop job processing for a longer duration having to process the stale jobs first would prolong the time to recovery.

Describe the solution you'd like

A way to return from the worker function that makes the job that was processed not count towards rate limits.

[roggervalf]

hi @sakari, something was investigated some time ago #1653 and also we notice that it would affect rate limit. No sure when we would have time to revive it as it didn't get too much traction

[sakari]

bummer.

thanks anyway for the reply.

[manast]

Unfortunately this is a bit difficult to implement as the rate-limit is updated as soon as job is moved to active status. However we can keep this open as an enhancement as it is in the realms of possibility to implement it some day.