A backfill chunk's time-box (BACKFILL_CHUNK_SECONDS=600) was only checked
between POSTS, but download_post downloads ALL of one post's media
synchronously — so a single media-heavy post could run the chunk far past 600s,
all the way to the Celery soft time limit (1350s), where it was killed and
finalized as error (Pocketacer, event #41330: ran the full 22.5 min).
download_post now polls a should_stop() deadline BEFORE each media item and the
engine passes `now - start >= time_budget_seconds`, so a heavy post stops at the
budget and the remaining media (never marked seen) re-fetch next chunk. Bounds
chunk overrun to one media download instead of one whole post.
Also genericized the soft-limit salvage message — it claimed the "gallery-dl
subprocess" failed, which is wrong for a native Patreon walk; it now describes
the time-budget overrun + per-page checkpoint resume in platform-neutral terms.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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