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I just encountered an error while simultaneously downloading from and posting to Giganews. Giganews allows 8 maximum connections to the server, so that is what I put in "max tasks at a time" in a server group consisting of two Giganews servers.

Of 139 parts posted so far as I write this, 8 failed with the error message "exceeded maximum number of connections per user (Server)". So my question is this: Does UE keep track of both download and upload connections and apply them simultaneously to the "maximum tasks at a time" limit?

Also, the context menu for the error message has "retry" and "cancel." Does "retry" only apply to the 8 parts that failed, or will it try to post the entire thing (with over 200 parts) again? (I don't want to flood the newsgroup with a redundant post.)

EDIT: I answered my own question by testing -- UE retries only failed parts.

i've looked at the post code, it checks the subset and it also saves the socket.

you can monitor the number of tasks all the time (set it to 4 tasks instead of 8 ) and see whether the number is ever exceeded.

if not try to uncheck keep alive in properties->general and set connection delay maybe 10 seconds with 8 tasks, if it works then, it means the server doesn't keep connection count right, you should contact them about the problem then.

if it also happened without posting it might be some local reason.

Do you have 2 user accounts with Giganews?


Sounds like you are trying 16 connections......
8 for server A and 8 for server B...... 16 total connections

If you only have 1 user account this may be your problem?
8 connections per user, not per server.

MrEman wrote:Do you have 2 user accounts with Giganews?


Sounds like you are trying 16 connections......
8 for server A and 8 for server B...... 16 total connections

If you only have 1 user account this may be your problem?
8 connections per user, not per server.

All of my Giganews serves are grouped in one server subset called "Giganews." The Giganews subset consists of news.giganews.com and news-50.giganews.com. The maximum number of connections was set in the properties page of the Giganews subset, not for the individual servers.

I've noticed this problem with downloading headers and articles in newfeeds.com servers. I always get "max conn exceeded 4>3" errors while doing both tasks. I've only got servers set to 3 connections max, so why does it do a 4th?

try to introduce connect delay for such servers in properties->servers, it is possible their connection number tracker is not working properly (it should assume some delay since usually sockets are closed asynchronously, but if it doesn't ue and newspro both have options to delay estabilishing connection thus former connections have some more time to be closed on the server side).