| Number of guests grows too large... [message #19965] |
Mon, 20 September 2004 18:28  |
WilliamBurns
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I would like to understand the little accounting that is reported at the bottom of the forum main page. On my implementation it generally shows zero to two or three users logged in, zero to two or three "hidden" users, and zero to two or three "guest" users. I had a problem with "maxclients" on my server yesterday, and the little report showed 155 guest users. This is not likely to be correct. I continued to refresh and look at the number, and it jumped down to 4 guests at one point, and then back to 155. Earlier in the day it showed 64. It seems to change too fast to be credible. On the same report, is there a reason why it seems out of phase with what is going on? When I login as administrator, for instance, the report does not list me as a user. Some time later, it will list administrator as a logged in user. Then when I logout, it continues to list administrator as a logged in user for a while. This report has always behaved this way for me, so I am more concerned at why the number of guest users is growing so large. It may be part of the reason why I am hitting the maxclients limit on my server.
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| Re: Number of guests grows too large... [message #19971 is a reply to message #19965] |
Mon, 20 September 2004 20:14  |
Ilia
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The statistics at the bottom of the page that you are referring to are cached, meaning that they are not realtime, unless you disable caching on the admin control panel. Consequently big changes can occur between referesh, since the default cache age is 10 minutes.
Large numbers of guests can occur thanks to primarily 2 things (other then lots of users) search engine bots & caching proxies. If you block those two via robots.txt they should stop trying to cache/index the forum.
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| Re: Number of guests grows too large... [message #19978 is a reply to message #19976] |
Mon, 20 September 2004 20:46 |
Ilia
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robots.txt is a file you need to write yourself, into this file you put rules (very simple to make) that set various rules that search spiders and proxies must follow. Consult google for tutorials and examples, there are A LOT of good resources on this topic.
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