While I understand the intent of conserving search resource use, will this
change have adverse effects in situations like professors instructing their
200-student classes to search for a particular topic and its related
articles on Wikipedia?
Pine
On May 18, 2015 12:35 PM, "Erik Bernhardson" <ebernhardson(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
In a few hours a patch will be going out which limits
the number of
concurrent searches a single user will be able to make to 5. This applies
to logged in and anonymous users. The failure message is `You have too
many concurrent searches running. If you are sharing an IP address with
other users you can log in to get your own limits.` for anonymous users, or
just `You have too many concurrent searches running.` for logged in users.
These are the `cirrussearch-too-busy-for-you-anonymous-error` and
`cirrussearch-too-busy-for-you-logged-in-error` i18n messages.
I will be monitoring the logs when this goes out, and intermittently
throughout the week as well. If necessary we will whitelist certain ip
ranges that seem to be shared among large numbers of users.
Erik B.
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