i'm not 100% sure what the manual means when it says... session.gc_maxlifetime integer session.gc_maxlifetime specifies the number of seconds after which data will be seen as 'garbage' and cleaned up. Garbage collection occurs during session start. what event exactly does the "after which" here refer to? i'd like to think that it means that a session is eligible for gc no sooner than session.gc_maxlifetime seconds after the most recent access (read or write) to that session. but it seems dangerously presumptuous to assume that this is the case. what do you take it to mean? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php