Cleaning up sessiondata folder...

[StinkFinger]

Hello all,
After enabling sessions for my website I have approx. 785 files in my
sessiondata folder. Now, I know what these are, however, I don't know
when/how is the best way to clean them (besides running a weekly delete
batch file).

Once the users leaves and closes the browser, the session is essential dead,
right ? So, why would I need to keep these files around ? I looked in
PHP.INI but I could not find any "cleaning" settings to remove the files.

Currently, I am only passing a few vars to the session, so they aren't too
big, maybe 12kb.

Should I just setup a delete script ?
Thanks.

[Chung Leong]

"StinkFinger" <st****@pinky.com> wrote in message
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Hello all,
After enabling sessions for my website I have approx. 785 files in my
sessiondata folder. Now, I know what these are, however, I don't know
when/how is the best way to clean them (besides running a weekly delete
batch file).

Once the users leaves and closes the browser, the session is essential dead, right ? So, why would I need to keep these files around ? I looked in
PHP.INI but I could not find any "cleaning" settings to remove the files.

Currently, I am only passing a few vars to the session, so they aren't too
big, maybe 12kb.

PHP will take care of them eventually. If their temporary presence bugs you
so, you can set session.gc_probability to a higher value (say 50) so that
the garbage is taken out more often.