If the problem is just of launching two copies at the
same time, make
the code verify before running that the other copy is not running.
Unfortunately this is not the main problem at the moment. The first
thing is that after the most memory consuming part of processing was
disabled in one of the copies the bot became more stable. But the main
problem is that with the limitation on memory table size just
introduced it cannot perform even its very first steps even when runs
alone.
The other problem is that once the limit had taken place two years ago
I would never go with creating this tool, but I did; and this means
I've spent a huge part of my life for nothing and a few other people
did the same. One of my collegues who runs the bot and applies its
results for ru and uk just participated poland wiki-conference
describing the tool and inviting the third language comunity to apply
bot's results in their wiki.
mashiah