[Coders Shack]

Originally Posted by alpayton

Wow - with a forum that's currently just growing (just a little over 500 members) and at the time the host had its fit about the spiking usage, there were only 30ish members online. I'd absolutely hate to see what size (must be tiny) forum this can run on without the issues of usage spiking. And, just to note...I had already accessed the ACP and played with the settings - extending the time for queries - obviously that didn't do much.

I do agree that this is a great concept, think it needs some tweaking.

... this is already optimized, it has the logic. If your server cant handle it its not the products fault, you need a better server.

There are over 420 sites using this product right now, and about 20% of them don't have the hardware to serve all the calls.

Play with the settings...

lower the idle time for the user (default is 5 mins)
lower the time for the topic to be active (default is 5 mins)
make the query interval higher (default is 2 seconds)

... Dont just install this knowing that you have a site with high traffic and hardware that doesn't have wiggle room and expect that it will be fine on your server out of the box.

Lynne what are your settings? Maybe he can use them.

I developed this in mind of highload sites.