crazlunatic: I run a board with ~400+ users logged in at peak times, and rarely see load spikes above 0.2 (linux load measurement). I can't even say I noticed any difference after enabling the modification.

That said, I see some people report heavy load increase but IMO it's due to general bad server configuration and the problem is not so much the modification in itself.

Same here. I typically have that many people on and I haven't noticed a server load issue at all (running CentOS).

I can't say it's bad server configuration when someone is having load issues, but it may be. Or - It may be just someone on a shared server which simply can't handle the load. I do have dedicated servers for my web sites. I make a good living off my web sites so the last thing I want is load issues. If someone is paying US$10 bucks or something for a shared solution and they're having issues it may just be that they need to look at a different server solution. You get what you pay for. I pay about US$250 a month per server (that's with a RAID mirror, which came in handy on my main site about 2 weeks ago when a drive 'went south').

Any idea whats making it incompatible with the mod: PassiveVid ?

I took for granted granted that every busy board run dedicated servers, but of course that's not always the case.

My point still remains valid tho. If someone runs a board which gets bogged down by this modification it's a clear signal that they should definitly change their hosting environment -- either by reconfiguring/performance tweaking or by a server change/upgrade/addition.

I changed the Css file that I uploade via ftp

This is high on my list of all time top vB hacks...

Thanks & Installed.

I ended up disabling live topic. Removing PassiveVid, installing AME and renabling Live Topic. Everything seems to be working great.

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thanks for the warning, I was about to install Passive Video.

How do I rate this 5/5 ? :D

Sorry, AME?