Too many users

03 Oct 23: One server has been relocated, the server currently doesn't have a public IP address in the meantime. 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" flood mass posted by few nzb websites and newzbin-like communities using usenet servers as private storage for their members to download the posts - the situation with the content is pretty chaotic, since posts are disguised in such a way, that users must use the satellite ecosystem (whish is not a part of Usenet) exclusively to download them, when the website disappears - the encrypted scattered posts just eat usenet providers' disk space uselessly. If you can't find something specific please let me know what exactly you can't find for me to check how it is possible to retain the posts. Legible posts shouldn't be affected at all, let me know if you notice anything missing.

08 Aug 24: After being unchanged for many years the search service communication protocol had to be updated a few times in part to resolve a server side set feature limitation and properly handle trial searches on the relocated server. The searches themselves are not affected and it looks like the work is now complete.

15 Mar 25: It looks like the search service is currently down as there are no pings. The other server is no more on starlink, but the search requests are still routed and the access to it is through the first server, since it is safer, but the direct access is no problem if this will be a repeated issue. The connection will be restored or server restarted as soon as possible.

16 Mar 25: One server is currently still down, the other server was reconfigured and already connected directly, so the search service is running with minimum possible retention gaps.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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tomhock
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Re: Search Failed (5)

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No, I have a 2wire modem/router.
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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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