-ini_set("max_execution_time", "0");
-ini_set("max_input_time", "0");
-set_time_limit(0);
-mb_internal_encoding('UTF-8');
+// Abort immediately if xmpp is not enabled, otherwise the daemon chews up
+// lots of CPU trying to connect to unconfigured servers
+if (common_config('xmpp','enabled')==false) {
+ print "Aborting daemon - xmpp is disabled\n";
+ exit();
+}