Growing pains

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 5/4/12 2:26 AM, Jeff Nowakowski wrote:
> On 05/03/2012 10:50 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Just letting you all know we're working on the frustrating and
>> increasingly frequent "Load at xx.xx, try again later" errors when
>> reading this forum through NNTP. They are caused by a significant growth
>> spurt in newsgroup readership that occurred in recent times. We are
>> working with our provider to fix these issues.
>
> Out of curiosity, can we get some numbers on the number of concurrent
> users that are causing the problems?

This would be interesting to know. Relayed upstream.

> I'm surprised that a modern machine
> would have trouble keeping up with newsgroup traffic. I figure it is
> either broken software or the machine is actually busy doing something
> else.

FWIW it seemed to be just a configuration issue.


Andrei