The _ONLINE table is the most polled table in a UBBtheeads install, it holds all of your whos online data and is constantly access on a busy forum and is expected to be hit even when a server has slowed down from other activity such as backups or maintenance tasks. Having a large WOL timeframe would be more rows stored in the database on large forums.

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