Thread overview
newsgroup availability
Aug 19, 2011
Timon Gehr
Aug 19, 2011
Jesse Phillips
Aug 19, 2011
kennytm
Aug 19, 2011
Stijn Herreman
Aug 19, 2011
Marco Leise
Aug 19, 2011
Jacob Carlborg
Aug 19, 2011
filgood
Aug 19, 2011
Jeff Nowakowski
August 19, 2011
Has there been some strange issue with the newsgroup lately?  Frequently, I'm getting load errors (I assume this means the NG load is too large to deal with my communication).

It seems to be happening daily...

-Steve
August 19, 2011
On 08/19/2011 03:44 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> Has there been some strange issue with the newsgroup lately? Frequently,
> I'm getting load errors (I assume this means the NG load is too large to
> deal with my communication).
>
> It seems to be happening daily...
>
> -Steve

It has been the same for me.
August 19, 2011
On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:52:40 +0200, Timon Gehr wrote:

> On 08/19/2011 03:44 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> Has there been some strange issue with the newsgroup lately? Frequently, I'm getting load errors (I assume this means the NG load is too large to deal with my communication).
>>
>> It seems to be happening daily...
>>
>> -Steve
> 
> It has been the same for me.

Yep, I get it all the time.
August 19, 2011
Timon Gehr <timon.gehr@gmx.ch> wrote:
> On 08/19/2011 03:44 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> Has there been some strange issue with the newsgroup lately? Frequently, I'm getting load errors (I assume this means the NG load is too large to deal with my communication).
>> 
>> It seems to be happening daily...
>> 
>> -Steve
> 
> It has been the same for me.

It's the same for everyone because it's a problem of the newsgroup server, not the client. I guess the server(s) needs more CPU running in parallel to reduce load.
August 19, 2011
On 19/08/2011 16:18, kennytm wrote:
> Timon Gehr<timon.gehr@gmx.ch>  wrote:
>> On 08/19/2011 03:44 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>>> Has there been some strange issue with the newsgroup lately? Frequently,
>>> I'm getting load errors (I assume this means the NG load is too large to
>>> deal with my communication).
>>>
>>> It seems to be happening daily...
>>>
>>> -Steve
>>
>> It has been the same for me.
>
> It's the same for everyone because it's a problem of the newsgroup server,
> not the client. I guess the server(s) needs more CPU running in parallel to
> reduce load.

Could it be the cause of frequent Thunderbird freezes? I can't tell because I only started using it for the newsgroup a few weeks ago.
August 19, 2011
On 2011-08-19 15:44, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> Has there been some strange issue with the newsgroup lately? Frequently,
> I'm getting load errors (I assume this means the NG load is too large to
> deal with my communication).
>
> It seems to be happening daily...
>
> -Steve

I'm getting the same error.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg
August 19, 2011
On 19/08/2011 14:44, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> Has there been some strange issue with the newsgroup lately? Frequently,
> I'm getting load errors (I assume this means the NG load is too large to
> deal with my communication).
>
> It seems to be happening daily...
>
> -Steve

Yes, I've also had the same error in the last few days...maybe we can have a mirror (that is sync'd regularly)?

~filgood
August 19, 2011
Am 19.08.2011, 17:15 Uhr, schrieb Stijn Herreman <stijn.herreman@telenet.be>:

> On 19/08/2011 16:18, kennytm wrote:
>> Timon Gehr<timon.gehr@gmx.ch>  wrote:
>>> On 08/19/2011 03:44 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>>>> Has there been some strange issue with the newsgroup lately? Frequently,
>>>> I'm getting load errors (I assume this means the NG load is too large to
>>>> deal with my communication).
>>>>
>>>> It seems to be happening daily...
>>>>
>>>> -Steve
>>>
>>> It has been the same for me.
>>
>> It's the same for everyone because it's a problem of the newsgroup server,
>> not the client. I guess the server(s) needs more CPU running in parallel to
>> reduce load.
>
> Could it be the cause of frequent Thunderbird freezes? I can't tell because I only started using it for the newsgroup a few weeks ago.

You could use the web interface to the newsgroup when you see the lockup and check if that loads or displays an error message about some load factor
August 19, 2011
On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:18:34 -0400, Marco Leise <Marco.Leise@gmx.de> wrote:

> Am 19.08.2011, 17:15 Uhr, schrieb Stijn Herreman <stijn.herreman@telenet.be>:
>
>> On 19/08/2011 16:18, kennytm wrote:
>>> Timon Gehr<timon.gehr@gmx.ch>  wrote:
>>>> On 08/19/2011 03:44 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>>>>> Has there been some strange issue with the newsgroup lately? Frequently,
>>>>> I'm getting load errors (I assume this means the NG load is too large to
>>>>> deal with my communication).
>>>>>
>>>>> It seems to be happening daily...
>>>>>
>>>>> -Steve
>>>>
>>>> It has been the same for me.
>>>
>>> It's the same for everyone because it's a problem of the newsgroup server,
>>> not the client. I guess the server(s) needs more CPU running in parallel to
>>> reduce load.
>>
>> Could it be the cause of frequent Thunderbird freezes? I can't tell because I only started using it for the newsgroup a few weeks ago.
>
> You could use the web interface to the newsgroup when you see the lockup and check if that loads or displays an error message about some load factor

It does.

BTW, this problem really makes me want to avoid the newsgroup...  I get no indication from my newsreader when it's "working", only when it's broken.  So as a consequence, if I want to send a message or read messages, I have to keep polling to see if it works.

This seems like an artificial problem, does anyone know what the cause is?

-Steve
August 19, 2011
On 08/19/2011 02:51 PM, filgood wrote:
>
> Yes, I've also had the same error in the last few days...maybe we can
> have a mirror (that is sync'd regularly)?
>
> ~filgood

It's available through Gmane:

nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.d.general