I doubt all 200 students will be making concurrent searches.

> On May 18, 2015, at 7:57 PM, John <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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.
>>> 
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