Re: $_SESSION v. Cookies
| From: | Robert Cummings | Date: | Wed, 07 May 2008 20:35:37 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: $_SESSION v. Cookies | ||
| References: | 1 2 3 4 5 | Groups: | php.general |
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On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 14:29 -0600, Nathan Nobbe wrote:
> On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Robert Cummings <robert@interjinn.com>
> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 16:03 -0400, tedd wrote:
> > At 12:34 PM -0400 5/7/08, Robert Cummings wrote:
> > >
> > >The exception being when it performs cleanup. Cleanup
> should be
> > >relegated to a cron job.
> >
> > Rob:
> >
> > What clean-up?
>
>
> All the inactive session files... inactive and garbage
> collection time
> is denoted by the following php.ini settings:
>
> session.gc_probability = 1 ; percentual 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
>
> so where is the setting, using the stock session handler, to relegate
> the gc process to a cron job ?
session.gc_probability = 0
Then do it yourself in a script called by cron.
Cheers,
Rob.
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