Hourly Cleanup's functions

[SecTa]

I couldn't find any sufficient info in forum and in manual on what exactly Scheduled Task's Hourly Cleanup #1 and #2 do.
Could somebody fully explain their functions, please?

[feldon23]

If you know PHP, MySQL, and vBulletin, you can read

/includes/cron/cleanup.php
/includes/cron/cleanup2.php

[SecTa]

If i knew php i wouldn't ask this question here.

[Scott MacVicar]

Cleans up old sessions, old searches, forum / thread markers, attachments that were uploaded but not used etc.

Just general cleanup of old data.

[SecTa]

What about old posts / threads? Are they deleted by Cleanups?

[Zachery]

No, exactly what scott said is what it does.

[feldon23]

If you want to prune/delete old threads after a specified period of time, you can set up a Scheduled Task to do this. I think most vB users would be pretty mad if, out of the box, it deleted people's posts.

Some people believe in pruning/archiving. I don't. I want every post since the beginning of time.

[hugojr]

I couldn't find any sufficient info in forum and in manual on what exactly Scheduled Task's Hourly Cleanup #1 and #2 do.
Could somebody fully explain their functions, please?

This is killing my server every hour to the point that it reboots my server..

How important is this?
How many times should I set this to run weekly?

[feldon23]

Did you look at the contents of the 2 files:

/includes/cron/cleanup.php
/includes/cron/cleanup2.php

Another topic about this:

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=181690