sfeed

Simple RSS and Atom feed parser
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commit 2e0e1fa5d66f01effe07d30e53e5cf558494796f
parent 4200d5c107d236dcf71a38fc54887039079a4531
Author: Hiltjo Posthuma <hiltjo@codemadness.org>
Date:   Sun, 30 Sep 2018 19:20:01 +0200

sfeed_update: add variable for max amount of feeds to update concurrently

This adds a variable for the maximum amount of feeds to update concurrently. A
system/user may have fork resource limits or want to setup some job limit.

Thanks leot for the idea and feedback!

Diffstat:
Msfeed_update | 11+++++++++++
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sfeed_update b/sfeed_update @@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ # defaults sfeedpath="$HOME/.sfeed/feeds" +# used for processing feeds concurrently: wait until ${maxjobs} amount of +# feeds are finished at a time. +maxjobs=8 + # load config (evaluate shellscript). # loadconfig(configfile) loadconfig() { @@ -71,6 +75,11 @@ fetchfeed() { # fetch and parse feed. # feed(name, feedurl, [basesiteurl], [encoding]) feed() { + # wait until ${maxjobs} are finished: throughput using this logic is + # non-optimal, but it is simple and portable. + test $((curjobs % maxjobs)) -eq 0 && wait + curjobs=$((curjobs + 1)) + (name="$1" filename="$(printf '%s' "$1" | tr '/' '_')" feedurl="$2" @@ -122,6 +131,8 @@ feeds() { echo "See sfeedrc.example for an example." >&2 } +# job counter. +curjobs=0 # kill whole current process group on ^C (SIGINT). isinterrupted="0" # SIGTERM: signal to terminate parent.