Document how request concurrency settings impact request order

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Adrián Chaves 2019-02-12 16:36:35 +01:00
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@ -129,13 +129,23 @@ Does Scrapy crawl in breadth-first or depth-first order?
By default, Scrapy uses a `LIFO`_ queue for storing pending requests, which
basically means that it crawls in `DFO order`_. This order is more convenient
in most cases. If you do want to crawl in true `BFO order`_, you can do it by
in most cases.
If you do want to crawl in true `BFO order`_, you can do it by
setting the following settings::
DEPTH_PRIORITY = 1
SCHEDULER_DISK_QUEUE = 'scrapy.squeues.PickleFifoDiskQueue'
SCHEDULER_MEMORY_QUEUE = 'scrapy.squeues.FifoMemoryQueue'
While pending requests are below the configured values of
:setting:`CONCURRENT_REQUESTS`, :setting:`CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_DOMAIN` or
:setting:`CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_DOMAIN`, those requests are sent
concurrently. As a result, the first few requests of a crawl rarely follow the
desired order. Lowering those settings to ``1`` enforces the desired order, but
it significantly slows down the crawl as a whole.
My Scrapy crawler has memory leaks. What can I do?
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