Does the Thread Views Updater cron job need to run?

[Lynne]

If that cron job is taking so long (how big is the threadviews table at any time that you look at it before the job is run?), then try setting it sooner, rather than later. It takes all the information from that table and enters it into the thread table. Have you looked at your error_logs to see if you are getting errors? Have you tried repairing/optimizing the table?