Link checking goes berserk

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kgish
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Link checking goes berserk

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While validating a web page with many internal links, I soon noticed that my web server slowly but surely became unreachable.

Upon further investigation, I discovered that CSE was going wild with link checking, thereby flooding my poor apache setup with tons of GET-requests, whereby my server started swapping wildly.

Perhaps it would be a good idea to set a (configurable) limit on the number of outstanding link checks before continuing with the others.

Curious what you think.
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Re: Link checking goes berserk

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kgish wrote:Perhaps it would be a good idea to set a (configurable) limit on the number of outstanding link checks before continuing with the others.

Curious what you think.
Hello,

You can set the maximum number of simultaneous link check requests in the Network tab of the Validator Engine Options. I think that will do what you want and slow down the link check. :-)
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Yeps, that did the trick thanks. I guess I should have looked better. But is there a way to turn it off completely?
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kgish wrote:Yeps, that did the trick thanks. I guess I should have looked better. But is there a way to turn it off completely?
Sure. You can turn off link checking in the Batch Wizard by unchecking the Enable link checking option in the Links tab of the Batch Wizard Options.
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Yes, but if this is disabled in the batch wizard, does that mean it is also disabled in the regular validations also?
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kgish wrote:Yes, but if this is disabled in the batch wizard, does that mean it is also disabled in the regular validations also?
No. That is a different setting (in the Editor Options). Or you can manually control the editor link checking by turning off the auto-link checking option when you validate a document in the editor. You can then press the Check Links button to check the links in the Links tab of the Results Window to check the links only when you want to.
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