Garbage Collection - gc_probability

[Anon]

When does the garbage men come to clean this mess up?

Im specifically speaking of session data files. I have found that setting the gc_probability setting in php.ini to '90' (percent), that everytime a new session starts it nukes the last session variable no matter WHO has it or what the session timeout variable (gc_maxlifetime) is set to.

So, when is this method going to be replaced with something cleaner?

I dont like seeing OLD session data files laying around and with a probability of 1% they may get cleaned up..(its default is 1)? Who thought this up. Sheesh. I would like PHP to always read the maxlifetime of the session from php.ini (but i would also like to set the timeout in the source php file itself).

Regardless, if a gc_maxlifetime is set for 5 mins, then and only then should it be tagged to be cleaned. Unfortunatly, this is not the case. I dont care if the gc_probability is set to 200%, if the lifetime of the session is not up, it SHOULDNT get NUKED!

Comments/Questions?

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[Anon]

I forgot to mention:

This is being tested without session_destroy(). I want to close the browser and test to see if these files are really being cleaned.

Thanks

[Anon]

funny, 1.5 years after you i am facing same problem. it took me 2 hours to discover this!!! what now? did anyone have same problems? thats sick... gc_maxlifetime should be set to something BIG if you dont want session file do dissapear is probability is set to 100. have you found out why it is like this?