when will session files be deleted?

[Anon]

Dear all

I found that the session files in /tmp are not deleted for few days

In php.ini, I hv set
session.cookie_lifetime = 0
session.gc_maxlifetime = 100
session.gc_probability = 100

when will session files be deleted? How can I set the timeout period?

I would like the session files to be deleted after the client timeout.

Thanks
cafe

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Sessions are deleted by the garbage cleanup process.
There is a probablility value that you can set, which decides how likely it is that "expired" sessions will be deleted at the next run of PHP.

Check the manual for more info.

[Anon]

I have checked the manual b4 I post this msg.

I have set session.gc_probability=100. Does it mean that 100% next run of PHP will trigger the garbage collecter?

However, the session files do not deleted, even I set session.gc_probability=100....with next run of PHP....

donno why...

cafe

[Anon]

I am looking into the same things as you were, and have noticed another setting in the ini file called session.gc_maxlifetime which defines after how much time the tmp file becomes garbage. If this was set too high, you would not be able to delete the files.

[Anon]

yeah Vincent it should work that was. i am facing a weird thing. i set probability to 100 and PHP is deleting live session temp files also - all except current user session [who hits refresh]. i know its probably my bug but anyway... how can he delete all other sessions that started 1 min ago and timeout is 2 hours.

Matjaz