The connection limit is really killing Shadow1's Shadowbot that is an essential spamfighting tool on the English wikipedia.  Is there no better way we can limit traffic?  Can it not be throttled to a certain throughput, for example?

Peter M Dodge aka Wizardry Dragon
Wikipedia Editor, CheckUser Clerk,
en.wikipedia.org

On 20/02/07, Ryan Bushby <highinbc@gmail.com> wrote:
I believe the search capacity is limited due to server load. ~~~~


On 2/20/07, Sean Whitton (Xyrael) < sean@silentflame.com > wrote:
On a side point, this is an extremely impressive tool. I've noticed
that MediaWiki's search isn't great, and I was wondering if there is
any particular reason for this that has been documented somewhere.
It'd make an interesting read.

Thanks.

On 2/20/07, Larry Pieniazek < lar@miltontrainworks.com> wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> Apologies if this was already asked, but TangoTango wrote a very nifty
> search tool, mayflower.
> http://tools.wikimedia.de/~tangotango/mayflower/search.php?q=mayflower&t=n
>
> See it here on the test wiki: http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search
> (you may need to be logged in)
>
> It's really great, and it got added to commons
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Search
>
> But unfortunately it's bumping into the 15 connection limit already.
>
> ---
>   Advanced search
> Please wait, searching for "mayflower"...
>
> Warning: mysqli::mysqli() [function.mysqli-mysqli]: (42000/1226): User
> 'tangotango' has exceeded the 'max_user_connections' resource (current
> value: 15) in /home/tangotango/public_html/mayflower/search.php on line 258
>
> Warning: mysqli::query() [function.mysqli-query]: Couldn't fetch mysqli in
> /home/tangotango/public_html/mayflower/search.php on line 287
>
> Warning: main() [function.main]: Couldn't fetch mysqli in
> /home/tangotango/public_html/mayflower/search.php on line 469
>
> Error:
>
> Warning: mysqli::close() [function.mysqli-close]: Couldn't fetch mysqli in
> /home/tangotango/public_html/mayflower/search.php on line 472
>
> ----
>
> Please consider raising that limit, a lot. Not sure how much but a lot
> because commons searches are quite frequent.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> Larry Pieniazek
> Work mail:   lpieniaz at us.ibm.com
> Hobby mail:  lar at miltontrainworks.com
>
>
>
> > Message: 1
> > Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 00:25:47 +0100
> > From: "DaB." <wp@daniel.baur4.info>
> > Subject: [Toolserver-l] New limitation of mysql-connections
> > To: Toolserver-ML < toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
> > Message-ID: <1171754747.3681.2.camel@DanielX.intern.baur4.info >
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I created a new limitation of 15 mysql-connections at the
> > same time by a user (after a user flooded mysql with a few
> > dutzend connection a few time ago).
> >
> > If someone need more connections, please mail me, the limit
> > can set per user.
> >
> > Have fun :).
> >
> > Sincerly,
>
>
>
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