On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Bahodir Mansurov <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I doubt all 200 students will be making concurrent searches.
>


I can easily imagine a scenario where 200 students in a large lecture
classroom might be instructed to open their laptops, go to Wikipedia, and
search for a particular topic at the same time. Similar to how teachers
[used to] say "now everyone in the class turn to Chapter 8...".

If that is indeed what we're talking about here, it will be disruptive.

- Jonathan



> > 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.
> >>>
> >>> Erik B.
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