Session's is slowing the page ??

Anon

Hi,
I have very wierd problem :

I use session to manage users and I have this structure of the page :

include("db.php");
include("header.php");
bla bla

include("footer.php");

in the db.php I have :

session_start();

#some mysql connect stuff

I use session with the $SESSION array (cheking if registered[isset($S...)] and registering...)
and all work fine....
but sometimes the page loading is very very very slow (and its a really really fast host) and when I removing session_start(); from the top of the page, the page load normaly.

the PHP version is 4.1.1, someone have an idea ?

Anon

i've the same problem.. still found no solution.

i've tryed a new php version (4.2.1) and newest apache too... no change.
my savepath for session files is tmp.
i've also tryed to change the rights for this directory... also no change.
i've tryed other cache methods (session_cache_limiter)... no help.
i realy don't know what i should try else...

dima_dubin

I think that I will use one of the php support mail list's to get help...
I will update if I find anything...

Anon

maybe it's a bug ??

i've searched the buglist at php.net and found nothing similar.

dima_dubin

In the php.general mail list someone told me to do this in the .htaccess file

php_value session.gc_probability = 10

it didnt help me, but maybe will help you, good luck.

Anon

can you try 'top' on your server and tell me your memory usage.

i fear i've some memory problems here and after several hours the server start do swap. i guess this slows down my server. after swapping the server runs normal for several hours and so on and so on.

Anon

i was wrong 🙂

i don't have a memory problem so that wasn't the problem...