Job queue
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The job queue in MediaWiki is a system designed to handle tasks that are too time-consuming or resource-intensive to be performed during a normal web request-response cycle.
The job queue allows MediaWiki to defer tasks that do not need immediate execution. This includes operations like updating link tables when templates change, sending notification emails, re-rendering pages after template edits, or any batch processing tasks.
Saintapedia reference
Example
Cron job
#!/bin/bash
# <translate nowrap><!--T:103--> Put the MediaWiki installation path on the line below</translate>
MW_INSTALL_PATH="/home/www/www.mywikisite.example/mediawiki"
RUN_JOBS="$MW_INSTALL_PATH/maintenance/runJobs.php --maxtime=3600"
echo <translate nowrap><!--T:104--> Starting job service...</translate>
# <translate nowrap><!--T:105--> Wait a minute after the server starts up to give other processes time to get started</translate>
sleep 60
echo <translate nowrap><!--T:106--> Started.</translate>
while true; do
# <translate nowrap><!--T:107--> Job types that need to be run ASAP no matter how many of them are in the queue</translate>
# <translate nowrap><!--T:108--> Those jobs should be very "cheap" to run</translate>
php $RUN_JOBS --type="enotifNotify"
# <translate nowrap><!--T:109--> Everything else, limit the number of jobs on each batch</translate>
# <translate nowrap><!--T:110--> The <tvar name=1>--wait</tvar> parameter will pause the execution here until new jobs are added,</translate>
# <translate nowrap><!--T:111--> to avoid running the loop without anything to do</translate>
php $RUN_JOBS --wait --maxjobs=20
# <translate nowrap><!--T:112--> Wait some seconds to let the CPU do other things, like handling web requests, etc</translate>
echo <translate nowrap><!--T:113--> Waiting for 10 seconds...</translate>
sleep 10
done
Docker
* * * * * docker exec web php maintenance/runJobs.php --maxjobs 700 --maxtime=55
sudo crontab -e