Re: Shell script to remove old PHP4 sessions in /tmp

From: Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 13:26:51 +0000
Subject: Re: Shell script to remove old PHP4 sessions in /tmp
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>This is obviously crude, so I hope that someone who knows more about PHP4 >sessions will suggest a better way to deal with expired sessions. Is there >is a way within the PHP4 session support? ---8<--- (php.ini) ---8<--- session.gc_probability = 1 ; procentual probability that the ; 'garbage collection' process is started ; on every session initialization session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440 ; after this number of seconds, stored ; data will be seen as 'garbage' and ; cleaned up by the gc process ---8<--- ---8<--- >Also, has anyone done any performance comparisons between file and say >MySQL based sessions? I'd put my money on the file-based ones. You wouldn't want to load the database server anymore than you have to.

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