I love the newsgroup interface.

I hate it when it starts saying shit like "load = 2045 gt 2000.  Please try again later"  Especially when I'm posting a message.

Is this a common problem with news servers?  Is there some way to fix this?

-Steve

On 3/5/12 2:33 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> I love the newsgroup interface.
>
> I hate it when it starts saying shit like "load = 2045 gt 2000. Please
> try again later" Especially when I'm posting a message.
>
> Is this a common problem with news servers? Is there some way to fix this?

I think it's a configuration on the news server that indicates it's overloaded. Probably it's time to scale up a bit (bigger machine or a second machine).

This affects the Web interface too, if the NNTP server is too loaded it can't serve the Web interface either.


Andrei

On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:33:24 -0500
"Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Is this a common problem with news servers?  Is there some way to fix this?

I regularly post to news groups from my mailer (Claws) and never had a single problem like you quoted above.


Sincerely,
Gour


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On Tuesday, 6 March 2012 at 10:22:15 UTC, Gour wrote:
> On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:33:24 -0500
> "Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Is this a common problem with news servers?  Is there some way to fix
>> this?
>
> I regularly post to news groups from my mailer (Claws) and never had a
> single problem like you quoted above.

That only means you don't post enough ;)

It's a problem well-known by regulars.

(An alternative explanation might be that your client might be placing the message in the outbox and retrying automatically in the background.)

On Tue, 06 Mar 2012 11:30:00 +0100
"Vladimir Panteleev" <vladimir@thecybershadow.net> wrote:

> That only means you don't post enough ;)

OK, I'll try to improve. ;)

> (An alternative explanation might be that your client might be placing the message in the outbox and retrying automatically in the background.)

Claws informs me when not being able to post and when it puts message in a queue.


Sincerely,
Gour


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On 06/03/2012 10:30, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
<snip>
> (An alternative explanation might be that your client might be placing the message in the
> outbox and retrying automatically in the background.)

It's a plausible explanation if it's the kind of error that happens _only_ on posting. But no program can do this when reading a 'group and make it look to the user as if a message has been downloaded when it hasn't.

Though one possibility is that some newsreader polls the server at intervals in the background and automatically downloads all messages.  Then you might notice only when you manually trigger a poll, or when you try to read a message that hasn't downloaded because the connection crashed between downloading new headers and downloading the message body.

Though a well-made newsreader would still indicate to the user in some way that there's been a problem, as much as it may try to lessen the inconvenience to the user.

Stewart.

On Tue, 06 Mar 2012 05:30:00 -0500, Vladimir Panteleev <vladimir@thecybershadow.net> wrote:

> On Tuesday, 6 March 2012 at 10:22:15 UTC, Gour wrote:
>> On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:33:24 -0500
>> "Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Is this a common problem with news servers?  Is there some way to fix
>>> this?
>>
>> I regularly post to news groups from my mailer (Claws) and never had a
>> single problem like you quoted above.
>
> That only means you don't post enough ;)
>
> It's a problem well-known by regulars.

Do you mean a well known NNTP problem or just for our newsgroups?  I'd be crazy to think that digitalmars is the largest online NNTP community ever, right?  I wouldn't know, because this is the only newsgroup I use...

-Steve

On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 08:01:48AM -0500, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Mar 2012 05:30:00 -0500, Vladimir Panteleev <vladimir@thecybershadow.net> wrote:
> 
> >On Tuesday, 6 March 2012 at 10:22:15 UTC, Gour wrote:
> >>On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:33:24 -0500
> >>"Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>>Is this a common problem with news servers?  Is there some way to fix this?
> >>
> >>I regularly post to news groups from my mailer (Claws) and never had a single problem like you quoted above.
> >
> >That only means you don't post enough ;)
> >
> >It's a problem well-known by regulars.
> 
> Do you mean a well known NNTP problem or just for our newsgroups?

This:

> I'd be crazy to think that digitalmars is the largest online NNTP community ever, right?

ROTFLMAO!!! That would certainly be the day, when D forums can lay claims to being the largest NNTP community online. That would be when D takes over the world. :D


> I wouldn't know, because this is the only newsgroup I use...
[...]

D newsgroups are really tame and low-volume, in comparison with the rest of Usenet. And I mean, really, really, REALLY tame. There's some crazy wild stuff going on out there in Usenet land.


T

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On Wednesday, 7 March 2012 at 13:01:48 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> Do you mean a well known NNTP problem or just for our newsgroups?

Just the DigitalMars NNTP server. The server will refuse to accept new connections when the system load is above a certain threshold.

On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 07:59:10 -0800
"H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@quickfur.ath.cx> wrote:

> ROTFLMAO!!! That would certainly be the day, when D forums can lay claims to being the largest NNTP community online. That would be when D takes over the world. :D

Well, at the moment digitalmars.D is the biggest newsgroup (number of messages) which I follow with wxwidgets-devel being the 2nd one.


Sincerely,
Gour


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