Re: [PHP4BETA] Session vars in /tmp/sess_*: how long? how removed?
| From: | Sascha Schumann | Date: | Thu, 16 Mar 2000 00:17:21 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [PHP4BETA] Session vars in /tmp/sess_*: how long? how removed? | ||
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On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 05:06:05PM -0600, Andrei Zmievski wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Chris Shenton wrote:
> > Oh, you mean these:
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> > Yikes. So on 1% of the session startups, session files /tmp/sess_*
> > containing session data older than 1440/60 = 24 minutes will be
> > removed?
>
> No, 1 = 100%.
No, session.gc_probability is an integer, thus
real propability = session.gc_probability / 100
- Sascha