Quote Originally Posted by SimonKemp View Post
It's the same for me... I think that 20 mins of inactivity is about the right amount to get logged out in.

Think about it, 300 users logged in for 20 mins doing nothing means that the main server has 300 x 1024 bytes in the stack for nothing.

Maybe it should be upped if posters with a poor connection can't u/l 20mb in 20 min.
So it has been changed, though I haven't noticed any performance improvement. It definitely didn't used to happen.

Just because people are logged in and idle according to the server doesn't mean that they're doing nothing. They might be reading a thread or preparing uploads or researching or whatever.

And what about the start-up overhead because people have to log in more often? Perhaps 60 minutes would be nearer ideal.