Who's Online

[pgowder]

In many of the threads in this forum people measure thier load by the number of members online. What is the best time to set that variable?

If it is set too high does that cause a load problem?

Thanks

[eva2000]

cookie time out has no performance effect at all only determines how accurate the number of users are online i.e

cookie time out of 3600 seconds and say every 15mins only 20 members actually logged in = ~ 80 users online reported

vs

cookie timeout of 900 seconds where 80 users logged in at the very same 5 minute interval and the remaining 10 mins no one was on the forums = still reports 80 users online

the latter example would on average be more server resource intensive than the former example

[pgowder]

So what do most people set this?

[Zachery]

The default 900 seconds.

[eva2000]

Yeah most will leave it at default 900 seconds :)

[OrionGraphix]

Where can I find the cookie timeout control options in the admin CP?

Thanks!

[Steve Machol]

Admin CP -> vBulletin Options -> Cookies and HTTP Header Options -> Time-Out for Cookie