[Smitty]

Originally Posted by nso

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').