Too many users

03 Oct 23: One server was relocated, the server currently doesn't have a public IP address since in the meantime it is running on starlink. I wrote some additional tunnel code running separately to handle this. When the server is engaged the connection is 5600+ days uniform (since around 24 July 2008). In the unlikely case I disengaged the server because of some problem the retention is 1200-3800 days depending on newsgroup. If you experience any issue please let me know.

29 Nov 23: Because of encrypted and obfuscated posts flood mass posted by a few nzb indexing websites using usenet servers as private storage for their members to download the posts - the situation with the content is pretty chaotic since their purpose is to post in such a way, so users must use their website exclusively, when the website disappears - the encrypted posts just eat usenet providers' hard disk space uselessly. If you can't find something specific please let me know at alexbirj at gmail dot com what exactly you can't find for me to check how it is possible to retain the posts. Non-obfuscated posts shouldn't be affected at all, let me know if you notice anything missing.

29 Nov 23: The search protocol had to be upgraded to extend 3 byte (16M+) limit on the server side for number of sets per instance, so at least the version 5.8.3 is needed to access it, otherwise should be no any difference.
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n2mdk
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Too many users

Post by n2mdk »

Getting the too many users response.

Seems to be working again.
tomhock
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Re: Search Failed (5)

Post by tomhock »

I'm not getting any response. It'll just sit there for several minutes with the "cancel" button up, and then the button turns back to "search" with no error or results. I've been having problems of various sorts off and on for weeks now.
Ustinov
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Re: Search Failed (5)

Post by Ustinov »

The same here for the last few weeks. An awful lot of time-outs after minutes. About one tenth of the searches give a result, so it is just pressing cancel/search after 5s without a response. It is just tonight that I am getting the too many users again.

I think the time-outs are related to the latest firmware update of my Thomson TWG870U cable modem (UPC The Netherlands). They will replace it with a Cisco this Thursday.
You do not happen to have a Thomson modem also, would you?

EDIT: They replaced my modem with a Cisco and all problems with time-outs were gone immediately. Working perfectly like the past few years.

If you have access to a laptop and/or a different internet connection you can try out whether the problem is related to your cable modem.
A laptop and the try-out version of UE can be helpful there.
tomhock
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Re: Search Failed (5)

Post by tomhock »

No, I have a 2wire modem/router.
alex
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Re: Search Failed (5)

Post by alex »

I've addressed "too many users", one server was out of RAM, it could also cause the occational delays before "too many users".

Missed the post from two days ago, when I was checking search it was working, noticed too many users indication on the server only today.

If you see anything unusal like search delays - apart from posting to forum you can also use contact form, I won't miss it for sure then.

I'll try to add some kind of free memory monitoring on all search service computers so I can easily see it here to avoid RAM overflow issues, it happened on a computer which is responsible for older retention I didn't check it frequently.
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