{"id":2019,"date":"2012-08-01T22:01:23","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T21:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yvespeneveyre8e29bf869d.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/01\/sp2013-the-server-was-unable-to-save-the-form-at-this-time\/"},"modified":"2012-08-01T22:01:23","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T21:01:23","slug":"sp2013-the-server-was-unable-to-save-the-form-at-this-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peneveyre.com\/en\/2012\/08\/01\/sp2013-the-server-was-unable-to-save-the-form-at-this-time\/","title":{"rendered":"SP2013 &#8211; The server was unable to save the form at this time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&lt;Caution&gt;This post is based on the SharePoint 2013 Consumer Preview. Thus, behavior described here may change in the next release of the platform&lt;\/Caution&gt;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.peneveyre.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/Windows-Live-Writer\/SP2013The-server-was-unable-to-save-the-_256\/LowMemoryError_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none;border-bottom: 0px;border-left: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;border-top: 0px;border-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px\" title=\"LowMemoryError\" border=\"0\" alt=\"LowMemoryError\" src=\"http:\/\/www.peneveyre.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/Windows-Live-Writer\/SP2013The-server-was-unable-to-save-the-_256\/LowMemoryError_thumb.jpg\" width=\"928\" height=\"500\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While working on a SharePoint 2013, after several hours of uptime, the user interface showed me an error message when I wanted to save an item in a list : &#8220;<font color=\"#ff0000\">The server was unable to save the form at this time. Please try again.<\/font>??? Looking at different possible causes, I found that the available memory was drastically low. Indeed, on this 8GB RAM front-end server virtual machine (the database is hosted on a second VM), only few megs were still available.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.peneveyre.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/Windows-Live-Writer\/SP2013The-server-was-unable-to-save-the-_256\/LowMemory_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none;border-bottom: 0px;border-left: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;border-top: 0px;border-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px\" title=\"LowMemory\" border=\"0\" alt=\"LowMemory\" src=\"http:\/\/www.peneveyre.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/Windows-Live-Writer\/SP2013The-server-was-unable-to-save-the-_256\/LowMemory_thumb.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"317\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.peneveyre.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/Windows-Live-Writer\/SP2013The-server-was-unable-to-save-the-_256\/Noderunner_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none;border-bottom: 0px;border-left: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;border-top: 0px;border-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Noderunner\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Noderunner\" src=\"http:\/\/www.peneveyre.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/Windows-Live-Writer\/SP2013The-server-was-unable-to-save-the-_256\/Noderunner_thumb.jpg\" width=\"273\" height=\"316\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then, in the &#8220;Processes??? tab, I saw that the noderunner.exe process was eating a lot of memory. A quick tour on Google and I found this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.information-worker.nl\/2012\/07\/27\/sp2013-memory-usage-noderunner-process\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marc Molenaar&#8217;s blog post<\/a> about the noderunner.exe process.<\/p>\n<p>I decided to give it a try and, as suggested in the post, I restarted the &#8220;SharePoint Search Host Controller??? service. Same observation as Marc, the service took a long time to restart and a huge part of the memory was released. The good thing is that at the same time it solved my item-saving issue. The error disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>To be sure this service restart was &#8220;solving??? the issue, I worked again several hours, playing also with the search and when the VM got short in memory, the same error message was shown to me again.<\/p>\n<p>Another side effect of this low-memory case occurs when browsing the Managed Metadata tree. I suddenly received constantly an &#8220;Unexpected response from server. The status code of response is &#8216;500&#8217;. The status text of response is &#8216;System.ServiceModel.ServiceActivationException&#8217;. Unfortunately, it was impossible to get out of this message loop, and the only way to get rid of it was to kill the Internet Explorer application.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.peneveyre.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/Windows-Live-Writer\/SP2013The-server-was-unable-to-save-the-_256\/Error500_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none;border-bottom: 0px;border-left: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;border-top: 0px;border-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Error500\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Error500\" src=\"http:\/\/www.peneveyre.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/Windows-Live-Writer\/SP2013The-server-was-unable-to-save-the-_256\/Error500_thumb.jpg\" width=\"324\" height=\"121\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;Caution&gt;This post is based on the SharePoint 2013 Consumer Preview. Thus, behavior described here may change in the next release of the platform&lt;\/Caution&gt; While working on a SharePoint 2013, after several hours of uptime, the user interface showed me an error message when I wanted to save an item in a list : &#8220;The server [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peneveyre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peneveyre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peneveyre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peneveyre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peneveyre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.peneveyre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peneveyre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peneveyre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peneveyre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}