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]

Re: Cleaning up sessiondata folder...

"StinkFinge r" <stinky@pinky.c om> wrote in message
news:10effkehlc 5ge7b@corp.supe rnews.com...[color=blue]
> 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[/color]
dead,[color=blue]
> 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.[/color]

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