(for some value of "too long")...

Monks, my question arises because of the lazy, impatient and hubricious way that I use my connection to the internet in general and to PM in particular.

In these days of gutsier computers and fatter pipes I tend to keep many browser windows open, each with many tabs, and keep those open overnight. My GMail, for example, is always "just there"; so are various work-related sites; so nowadays is a collection of PM nodes. As I look through SoPW, I open interesting nodes into another tab, and may open another tab from that one. And Meditations can lead to a node explosion ...

I am concerned in case being almost-permanently logged in to PM may be using some limited resource in the Machinery of the Monastery. I do not see hundreds of names in the Other Users nodelet, which kind of suggests that most other users log in, do their thing, and log out again. (Then again, perhaps "Other Users" != "All other users right now", but only those actually actively participating ..?)

So the question is : am I occupying some resource on the PM server by remaining logged in when I am not actively engaged on Monkery? Should I be returning my kilobyte-seconds so that someone else can use them?

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In reply to Is it harmful to spend too long on PerlMonks? by jvector

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