Re: Session data files

On 5/8/09 11:09 AM, "phphelp -- kbk" <phphelp@comcast.net> wrote: > Just something I'm curious about: When I run PHP on my development > box (W2K), I just get one session file per connection which gets > deleted (usually) after the session expires. > > When I look at the session files on the client server (linux/apache), > there seems to be one session file per page click. I needed to clear > them a few minutes ago, and there are already 80+ files, and this is > just from one user (a tester -- this is in late-late-late beta). > > Now, there is nothing wrong -- everything is working fine -- I am > just curious if Apache does this differently, or if there is a > configuration setting that governs this (I haven't found -- but only > did a cursory look). > > Anybody willing to take the time to enlighten me? have you satisfied yourself that what you're seeing is not just an artifact of how the session garbage collector works? http://us.php.net/manual/en/session.configuration.php maybe compare the gc parameters on the two different machines? phpinfo() displays the values.