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How to reset Most Users Online counter. [message #29668]

Mon, 09 January 2006 12:53

pogar

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Hello.

I would like to reset the Most Users Online counter.

I tried to set to zero value most_online and most_online_time fields in fud_skfm_stats_cache table, but it didn't helped..

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Odp: How to reset Most Users Online counter. [message #29669 is a reply to message #29668]

Mon, 09 January 2006 12:56

pogar

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It seems that it's helped.. Smile

I've wait a few minutes and this stats are updated.

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Re: Odp: How to reset Most Users Online counter. [message #29671 is a reply to message #29669]

Mon, 09 January 2006 14:51

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To zero the table you need to zero the cache_age column.

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Odp: Re: Odp: How to reset Most Users Online counter. [message #29751 is a reply to message #29671]

Fri, 13 January 2006 14:22

pogar

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Hm.

I wanted to reset the counter because probably someone using some robots or something else on my page in the counter gets high value..

It is possible to make this counter nonvulneable for this?

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Re: Odp: Re: Odp: How to reset Most Users Online counter. [message #29752 is a reply to message #29751]

Fri, 13 January 2006 19:43

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Not really, since the only way to identify bots is to monitor user-agent on each sessions and that's too much overhead.

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Odp: Re: Odp: Re: Odp: How to reset Most Users Online counter. [message #29756 is a reply to message #29752]

Fri, 13 January 2006 20:14

pogar

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so maybe you can introduce the new feature, which lets us to choose the timespan, between the visit of new users will be ignored?
For example 10 seconds.. ?

Or maybe it'll we possible to save the history of MostUsers and this feature lest us to delete theseh bots visit.

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Re: Odp: Re: Odp: Re: Odp: How to reset Most Users Online counter. [message #29757 is a reply to message #29756]

Fri, 13 January 2006 20:33

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The new user is determined based on their session id, not anything else.

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Odp: How to reset Most Users Online counter. [message #29916 is a reply to message #29668]

Tue, 24 January 2006 08:03

pogar

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ok.

But I would like to prevent to override this counter: I mean that that realistic "most users online" on my forum (link is in my profile) is about 20-30 users.

Very often this number growup do 130 - 200... Especially during the night or very early morning. Probably this is made by some offline browsing agent (Teleport similar) or maybe this is a small DDos..

So, maybe you could implement some feature like that:

a = ignore_new_session_timespan = 10 seconds
if (new_seesion_start_time - last_sesson_start_time <10) then do_not_increase_most_users_online_counter?

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Re: Odp: How to reset Most Users Online counter. [message #29926 is a reply to message #29916]

Tue, 24 January 2006 18:41

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It requires too much calculation and ultimately it would miscount on popular forums where during peak hours you have people update & create sessions much more often then 10 seconds.

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