thank you, Ralph! i'm going to be bold and assume that tom at punkave dot com is right despite that the report was discarded. i got a complaint from a client about some users reporting being logged out with rather short periods of inactivity. but session.gc_maxlifetime is set to 6 hours so i don't think that's the source of the problem. On 9/22/09 4:17 PM, "Ralph Deffke" <ralph_deffke@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Tom, > > i did find this in the bug reports, its pretty new and should be an answer. > > http://news.php.net/php.doc.bugs/2653 > > ralph_deffke@xxxxxxxx > > > "Tom Worster" <fsb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message > news:C6DE9EEE.12C8D%fsb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> 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