Bug #55048 [Opn->Csd]: Garbage is Never Collected

Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55048&edit=1 ID: 55048 User updated by: kvonlaven at yahoo dot com Reported by: kvonlaven at yahoo dot com Summary: Garbage is Never Collected -Status: Open +Status: Closed Type: Bug Package: Session related Operating System: CentOS 5.3 -PHP Version: Irrelevant +PHP Version: 5.2.6-1+lenny10 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: I just got it to work. It turns out the settings in php.ini were being completely ignored and overwritten with the following values: session.gc_probability = 0 session.gc_divisor = 100 session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440 Understandbly this meant the garbage was never being collected. This is a little surprising because I thought the default value of session.gc_probability was supposed to be 1. In any case, the reason my php.ini settings were being ignored is that I didn't put quotes around the string I assigned to a different ini variable. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-06-13 21:26:37] kvonlaven at yahoo dot com Description: ------------ I'm using PHP version 5.2.6-1+lenny10. I would upgrade or try using an SVN snapshot if I could, but I don't have administrator privileges on the server I'm using :-/. Below is an excerpt from my php.ini file. session.gc_probability = 1 session.gc_divisor = 1 session.gc_maxlifetime = 3600 I also have a call to session_save_path('Session Data') and ini_set('session.gc_maxlifetime', 3600) right before session_start() gets called. These three functions get called at the top of every page before any output is sent from the server. Test script: --------------- I executed the following script to verify that PHP has the appropriate privileges to delete temporary session files, and it deleted the file as expected. <?php unlink('Session Data/name_of_arbitrary_session_file'); ?> Expected result: ---------------- My understanding is that, using this configuration, the garbage collector should completely delete all temporary session files in the "Session Data" directory that are over an hour old every time anybody goes to any page on the site. Actual result: -------------- I have empty temporary session files in the "Session Data" folder that are several days old but have yet to be deleted. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55048&edit=1