#50733 [NEW]: Garbage Collection fails

From: elmex at voll dot in Operating system: FreeBSD 6.1 PHP version: 5.2.12 PHP Bug Type: Session related Bug description: Garbage Collection fails Description: ------------ The Garbage Collection ist set to session.gc_maxlifetime=1440, but there are a lot of session files set are older. In all hosts on the server there is a virtual host setting for session.save_path like session.save_path="/usr/local/www/hostname/phptmp". That is the only session related setting, that was modified. A find for the files shows currently: find /usr/local/www/ -maxdepth 3 -mindepth 3 -name 'sess_*' -cmin +24 | wc -l 8443 (amin is the same:) find /usr/local/www/ -maxdepth 3 -mindepth 3 -name 'sess_*' -amin +24 | wc -l 8443 Reproduce code: --------------- no code, just settings Expected result: ---------------- session files should be deleted after session.gc_maxlifetime or earlier Actual result: -------------- session files are not deleted or deleted too late -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=50733&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50733&r=trysnapshot52 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50733&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50733&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in SVN: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50733&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50733&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50733&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50733&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50733&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50733&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50733&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50733&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50733&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50733&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50733&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50733&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50733&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50733&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50733&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50733&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50733&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50733&r=mysqlcfg