Students trying to register for campus parking permits Monday experienced some difficulty accessing the MSU Department of Police and Public Safety's online registration Web site.

The volume of visitors to the site forced students to wait in an application queue ranging from several hundred to as many as one thousand students.

MSU police Sgt. Florene Mcglothian-Taylor said it might be because more students attempted to access the site than the server could handle.

The parking registration site is supported by Administrative Information Services, or AIS, said David Gift, vice provost of Libraries, Computing & Technology.

"It does seem to be a load-related problem," Gift said.

A team of AIS technicians were working to correct the problem, but Gift said he did not know how long it would take.

The problem might have been triggered by software updates that had unintentionally diminished the capacity of the server.

The process of logging on to the server seemed to be speeding up by Monday evening.

Students can register for parking by visiting dpps.msu.edu between 8 a.m. and 9 p.m., Monday through Friday.