title: Stopping gearman workers nicely
body: <p>I have a number of Gearman workers running constantly, saving things like records of user page views, etc.  Occasionally, I'll update the PHP code that is used by the Gearman workers.  In order to get the workers to switch to the new code, I the kill and restart the PHP processes for the workers.</p>
  
  <p>What is a better way to do this? Presumably, I'm sometime losing data (albeit not very important data) when I kill one of those worker processes.</p>
  
  <p>Edit: I found an answer that works for me, and posted it below.</p>