Matt wrote: > [matth@hecate tmp]$ cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max > 52403 To be 100% certain this ain't the problem, do something like: exec("ls /tmp/ | wc -l", $result, $error); if ($error){ error_log("Attempt to count number of sessions failed: $error" . implode("", $result)); } else{ error_log("Currently there are " . implode($result) . " sessions"); } The goal being to make absolutely certain that there are not more than 52403 files in /tmp when things fail... Of course, between the time it fails and the time you do the exec() a bunch of /tmp files could appear/disappear, but hopefully you'll find out quickly if you're in the same ballpark as 52K files in the directory. This is probably *NOT* really the problem, just one example of something which *could* be going on. PS Try to write any code that error-checks the session_start() as REAL code, not just debugging junk you'll rip out. Error-checking is Good. :-) -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php