[support] Displaying "Who's on line"

[Don Pickerel]

if you have access to the system, you could probably limit the systems 
TCP keep alive time. If it doesn't see activity in a certain amount of 
time that connection is closed and the Apache thread is released. When 
that's closed the session should be released as well.

-Don-

On 4/13/2012 12:32 PM, steeph wrote:
> On 04/13/2012 05:48 PM, Ms. Nancy Wichmann wrote:
>> I don't know if it shows people after they actually bother to log 
>> out, but it might. The fact is that the list just has no connection 
>> to reality. I don't know if actually reading the Session table would 
>> be any better either.
> That's right. But you can set an amount of minutes after the user's 
> last activity. After this the user isn't displayed as "online" until 
> the next page is called. Sure, it isn't reality, but most times it's 
> not far from it.
>
> If Roger wants to show such a block, views is my recommendation. If 
> it's not accurate enough, I have no recommendation. But if hiding 
> admin users is all that he wants to change about the display provided 
> by core, that should do it.
>
>

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