Session garbage collection on Debian(-based) [#418814]

On Debian and Debian based systems, it's necessary to add a couple of ini_set()s to the settings.php file, otherwise the session garbage collection of PHP (and Drupal) would never run resulting in very, very large sessions table.

The instructions are at http://drupal.org/node/35834 I wonder if this should be included somewhere in the installation guide as a Hint or so. It was really helpful.

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Comment #1

andreiashu CreditAttribution: andreiashu commented 30 March 2009 at 23:11

Probably this should be backported to D6 too, right ?

Comment #2

AmrMostafa CreditAttribution: AmrMostafa commented 30 March 2009 at 23:14

Yes definitely

Comment #3

jhodgdon

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CreditAttribution: jhodgdon commented 15 March 2010 at 19:23

Project:	Drupal core	» Documentation
Version:	7.x-dev	»
Component:	documentation	» Correction/Clarification

Sounds like something to put into the Handbook? Moving to documentation issue queue.

Comment #4

arianek CreditAttribution: arianek commented 5 December 2010 at 05:35

Issue tags:

+Documentation, +server stuff

tagging so i can pass this onto a docs team person who knows server stuff

Comment #5

jhodgdon

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CreditAttribution: jhodgdon commented 5 December 2010 at 17:11

Just to clarify what this issue is:

I just took a look at the page linked above (http://drupal.org/node/35834) which is in the Post Installation support forum.

It appears that in #72856: Expire Anonymous user sessions, some settings were added to the D7 settings.php to make sessions expire and get cleaned out. The issue is marked as "to be ported" to D6, but that marking was done back in June of 2010 and it hasn't happened.

So the request here is to add to the D6 installation guide to make a suggestion that these lines be added manually to the settings.php file for people running Drupal on Debian-based servers.