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 Culling idle notebook servers
 =============================
 
-The idle culler is a hub-managed service that automatically shuts down idle
-single-user notebook servers in order to free up resources. After culling, any
-in-memory data will be lost.
+The idle culler automatically shuts down user notebook servers when they have
+not been used for a certain time period, in order to reduce the total resource
+usage on your JupyterHub.
+
+
+JupyterHub pings the user's notebook server at certain time intervals. If no response
+is received from the server during this checks and the timeout expires, the server is
+considered to be *inactive (idle)* and will be culled.
+
+
+Default settings
+================
+
+By default, JupyterHub will ping the user notebook servers every 60s to check their
+status. Every server found to be idle for more than 10 minutes will be culled.
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+	services.cull.every = 60
+	services.cull.timeout = 600
+
+Because the servers don't have a maximum age set, an active server will not be shut down
+regardless of how long it has been up and running.
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+	services.cull.max_age = 0
+
+If after the culling process, there are users with no active notebook servers, by default,
+the users will not be culled alongside their notebooks and will continue to exist.
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+	services.cull.users = False
+
+
+Configuring the idle culler
+===========================
+
+The available configuration options are:
+
+Idle timeout
+------------
+The idle timeout is the maximum time (in seconds) a server can be inactive before it
+will be culled. The timeout can be configured using:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+	sudo tljh-config set services.cull.timeout <max-idle-sec-before-server-is-culled>
+	sudo tljh-config reload
+
+Idle check interval
+-------------------
+The idle check interval represents how frequent (in seconds) the Hub will
+check if there are any idle servers to cull. It can be configured using:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ 	sudo tljh-config set services.cull.every <number-of-sec-this-check-is-done>
+ 	sudo tljh-config reload
+
+Maximum age
+-----------
+The maximum age sets the time (in seconds) a server should be running.
+The servers that exceed the maximum age, will be culled even if they are active.
+A maximum age of 0, will deactivate this option.
+The maximum age can be configured using:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ 	sudo tljh-config set services.cull.max_age <server-max-age>
+ 	sudo tljh-config reload
+
+User culling
+------------
+In addition to servers, it is also possible to cull the users. This is usually
+suited for temporary-user cases such as *tmpnb*.
+User culling can be activated using the following command:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ 	sudo tljh-config set services.cull.users True
+ 	sudo tljh-config reload
+
+Concurrency
+-----------
+Deleting a lot of users at the same time can slow down the Hub.
+The number of concurrent requests made to the Hub can be configured using:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ 	sudo tljh-config set services.cull.concurrency <number-of-concurrent-hub-requests>
+ 	sudo tljh-config reload
+
+Because TLJH it's used for a small number of users, the cases that may require to
+modify the concurrency limit should be rare.
 
 
 Disabling the idle culler
@@ -18,69 +111,4 @@ command:
 .. code-block:: bash
 
    sudo tljh-config set services.cull.enabled False
-
-
-Configuring the idle culler
-===========================
-
-By **default**,  JupyterHub will:
-	* Run the culling process every minute.
-	* Cull any user servers that have been inactive for more than 10 minutes.
-
-The configuration options available are:
-
-Idle timeout
-------------
-
-The idle timeout (in seconds) can be configured using:
-
-.. code-block:: bash
-
-	sudo tljh-config set services.cull.timeout <max-idle-sec-before-server-is-culled>
-
-*By default services.cull.timeout = 600*
-
-Idle check interval
--------------------
-
-The interval (in seconds) for checking for idle servers to cull can be configured using:
-
-.. code-block:: bash
-
- 	sudo tljh-config set services.cull.every <number-of-sec-this-check-is-done>
-
-*By default services.cull.every = 60*
-
-Maximum age
------------
-
-The maximum age (in seconds) of servers that should be culled even if they are active
-can be configured using:
-
-.. code-block:: bash
-
- 	sudo tljh-config set services.cull.max_age <server-max-age>
-
-*By default services.cull.max_age = 0*
-
-User culling
-------------
-
-In addition to servers, the users will also be culled if the following command is used:
-
-.. code-block:: bash
-
- 	sudo tljh-config set services.cull.users True
-
-*By default services.cull.users = False*
-
-Concurrency
------------
-
-The number of concurrent requests made to the Hub ca be configured using:
-
-.. code-block:: bash
-
- 	sudo tljh-config set services.cull.concurrency <number-of-concurrent-hub-requests>
-
-*By default services.cull.concurrency = 5*
+   sudo tljh-config reload