Best method of implementing idle kick

[warz]

Well, I figured I'd take my current bot a step further. I was thinking of ways to implement idle kick. I'm thinking I'll create a class for users attributes that are in the channel. Currently, I have a list that holds the users in the channel. I'm thinking of switching it to a map, and insert the users with an appropriate class holding their time of join, last time of talk, etc.

But, when it comes to the checking for idle users part, I can't really think of a good way to handle this. Would it be best to create a thread that just has an infinite loop with a sleep call in there so it loops every second, checking the users in the channel? This sounds like it'd be rather memory consuming. Anyone have any ideas?

[rabbit]

SID_PING should be received every 20 seconds.

[MyndFyre]

In the past I have simply created timers that notify me when a user has been idle for x ms.  I reset the timer when the user talks.  I also don't bother if the user is exempt from such a kick.

[warz]

I'll probably just use SID_PING. Sounds like a reasonable idea. The idle checking process isn't too high in priority, I'd assume.

[Eric]

SID_PING should be received every 20 seconds.

SID_PING is only sent by the server when the client itself is idle so if your client is dispatching messages or moderating the channel it'll throw off your timing scheme.