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Old 05-07-2008
Nathan Nobbe
 
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Default Re: [PHP] $_SESSION v. Cookies

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 ?

-nathan

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