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[Bob Zumbrunnen]

I do that mainly because:

1. The machine should be able to easily spare the connections.

2. I think it's faster to use an existing open connection than to close and re-open them.

3. If it's set too low, people who don't accept the cookie will get logged out after too short a period of inactivity.

Personally, I'd prefer timeouts along the order of 24 hours, so people can stay logged in most of the time.

Think I should cut it back to 300 seconds for tomorrow just to see what happens? I'm TS'd into it right now.