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Change subject: Print additional warning when starting a thread fails ......................................................................

Print additional warning when starting a thread fails

- print a warning to decrease max_external_links - increase sleeping time before starting a new thread to config.retry_wait value to wait a longer time until a previous thread was finished.

Bug: T145273 Change-Id: I1cebcfa6e49f0e68975d7e9062e1dd3825b9a7ac --- M scripts/weblinkchecker.py 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Approvals: Mpaa: Looks good to me, approved jenkins-bot: Verified

diff --git a/scripts/weblinkchecker.py b/scripts/weblinkchecker.py index 9f5abb5..44e3296 100755 --- a/scripts/weblinkchecker.py +++ b/scripts/weblinkchecker.py @@ -862,13 +862,20 @@ # Limit the number of threads started at the same time. Each # thread will check one page, then die. while threading.activeCount() >= config.max_external_links: - # wait 100 ms - time.sleep(0.1) + time.sleep(config.retry_wait) thread = LinkCheckThread(page, url, self.history, self.HTTPignore, self.day) # thread dies when program terminates thread.setDaemon(True) - thread.start() + try: + thread.start() + except threading.ThreadError: + pywikibot.warning( + "Can't start a new thread.\nPlease decrease " + "max_external_links in your user-config.py or use\n" + "'-max_external_links:' option with a smaller value. " + "Default is 50.") + raise

def RepeatPageGenerator():