what does this message mean

[christine154]

hi every time i try to use gixen i keep getting this message and it wont list the item .any ideas ?
Failed to open session, another active request by the same user. Please try again in couple of minutes.

[Cupid]

Yes I've got this message many times myself this afternoon/evening.

It is a feature designed to prevent denial of service attacks, however at times of high load, like Sunday evenings it does seem to happen more often to users just performing normal activities on the snipe page.

Hopefully greater capacity on the web server will help to alleviate this in future. In the mean time, I know its frustrating (it has been for me too) but if you keep trying you can get things done eventually.

It would also probably help to set up snipes at a different time, say on a Saturday for Sunday snipes.
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[mario]

You will no longer see these. The front-end server has been upgraded, and I removed these checks. I intend to add more servers if needed in the future, and use dns for load balancing.