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Is it just my spectacular bad luck or is the search facility unusable.
I try at various times of the day, but not once in the 2 weeks I have been trying, have I been greeted by anything but a busy server message.
I think that this is a real shame as there is a huge body of knowledge available in this website and no way of getting at it other than trawling page by page through each forum.
Wouldn't it be a good idea to have a really extensive archive?
Comments please.
Ugly
I try at various times of the day, but not once in the 2 weeks I have been trying, have I been greeted by anything but a busy server message.
I think that this is a real shame as there is a huge body of knowledge available in this website and no way of getting at it other than trawling page by page through each forum.
Wouldn't it be a good idea to have a really extensive archive?
Comments please.
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Ugly & Lamboman,
Virtually impossible indeed. Apparently the best times are between 2 & 3am !! Check this thread for more info on the subject.
MF
Virtually impossible indeed. Apparently the best times are between 2 & 3am !! Check this thread for more info on the subject.
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Yes, I'll add that it is frustrating to see that message.
A suggestion: (that may have been done in the past ??)
Turn 'off' the "search/inhibit" for a day or two and see what the 'numbers' come up as.
More importantly than numbers, 1) would the software actually crash ? ... I'd be surpristed.
2) Just how much longeer would the average wait be ?
Btw what is the op sys / hardware ?
Mike
A suggestion: (that may have been done in the past ??)
Turn 'off' the "search/inhibit" for a day or two and see what the 'numbers' come up as.
More importantly than numbers, 1) would the software actually crash ? ... I'd be surpristed.
2) Just how much longeer would the average wait be ?
Btw what is the op sys / hardware ?
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With the load we have the server response time becomes so poor that your browser would time out before you got any reply.
If you're in IT do the sums yourself. Bandwidth usage per month 180 gigabytes. Twin pentium server running entirely on unix.
[ 01 September 2001: Message edited by: PPRuNe Towers ]
If you're in IT do the sums yourself. Bandwidth usage per month 180 gigabytes. Twin pentium server running entirely on unix.
[ 01 September 2001: Message edited by: PPRuNe Towers ]
Dir. PPRuNe Line Service
No, the software won't crash. It would just slow everything else down as a search is CPU, Memory and Disk intensive.
The system is tuned so that searches are permitted only if they can reasonably be expected to return a result before the browser times out.
Bandwidth stats (updated daily) are available at http://www.pprune.org/usage_stats
Bloody hell, August was over 200Gb
---Mik
[ 01 September 2001: Message edited by: PPRuNe Dispatcher ]
The system is tuned so that searches are permitted only if they can reasonably be expected to return a result before the browser times out.
Bandwidth stats (updated daily) are available at http://www.pprune.org/usage_stats
Bloody hell, August was over 200Gb
---Mik
[ 01 September 2001: Message edited by: PPRuNe Dispatcher ]
