[atlas] Why did I get "Over the limit on number of results"?

Hi,

On 2017-10-25 14:16, Wouter de Vries wrote:
> Hi Eduardo,
> 
> There are also limits on the number of results that you generate per
> day, called the "Daily measurement result flow". This could be what you
> are describing. 
> 
> The limits are shown at https://atlas.ripe.net/atlas/user/
> 
> Best,
> 
> Wouter

Indeed that page describes the limits for a particular user.

There's more documentation available at
https://atlas.ripe.net/docs/udm/#rate-limits.

Let me perhaps explain a bit more of the motivation. We started off with
putting hard limits, besides other things, on:
a) the number of concurrent measurements a user can
b) the number of probes that can be involved in a single measurement
c) the total amount of credits one can spend per day

A year or two ago we introduced a "daily measurement result flow" (d),
with the intention of that it can ultimately replace (a) and (b),
perhaps even (c). The idea behind this is that from the resource use
point of view it shoould not matter (*) if one runs 1 msm with 10000
probes or 100 measurements with 100 probes each -- what matters is the
total output the user is requesting from the system.

BTW (a), (b) and (c) are hard numbers, (d) is an estimate so even though
it's more user-friendly, it's more difficult to maintain.

We haven't reached the point where (d) is the ultimate limit; mostly
because there *is* difference in the (*) part above, for internal
reasons. Solving this is a long-ish process, but are making steps to get
there.

Hope this explains,
Robert