This will bring such a idea to a screeching halt. Any kind of shared IPs
will be unable to search

On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 7:54 PM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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" <[email protected]>
> 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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