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mikemcc



Joined: 29/08/2016 12:30:58
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When are the best times of the week and/or day (please state the timezone) to use the Geonames service to minimize the likelihood of returning this error:

ERROR: canceling statement due to statement timeout [value] => 13

I have received that error message quite a lot recently. I don't think there is a coding error and I don't think my calls to these APIs:

http://api.geonames.org/findNearbyWikipediaJSON
and
http://api.geonames.org/wikipediaBoundingBoxJSON

have been particularly frequent or onerous, so I imagine the Geonames server is overburdened - hence my question.

Many thanks.
mikemcc



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Any thoughts on this from the experts like Marc please ?

I have tried some more bounding box API calls in the evening London time today and last weekend and get nothing but the same error message:

ERROR: canceling statement due to statement timeout [value] => 13

Many thanks,
Mike
marc



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On weekends the load on the free servers is lower. During workdays it is high after 12pm GMT till 0 GMT.

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mikemcc



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Thanks Marc. As one might have guessed then. Mike
 
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