Lag caused by sitter authentication

[icydee]

There is excessive lag when multiple sitters are set for an account, even if the sitters are expired.

On us1 I set up account icydee so that it sat for all Culture alliance members (36 empires). When clicking anything that returns a status the response was about 15 seconds.

Then I set the expiry date for all the sitters to a date in the past.

I would have expected that no empires to show in the right-hand-menu, and that there would no longer be any lag (because no queries on those baby empires are now returned in the status).

The right-hand-menu indeed no longer shows the baby empires but the lag remains at 15 seconds.