Thanks for the reply Aziz, I'm wondering about the decision itself, it seems like a rather strange value, almost like the intention was 24 hours which there is some logic to. What do you think? How could I find more info on this? I emailed the person who made the commit to the PHP source code ago setting this default, but that was a long time ago and I still have not received any reply. Kind regards, Markus On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 8:57 PM, Aziz Saleh <azizsaleh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Markus Amalthea Magnuson < > markus.magnuson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hey all, >> >> Does anyone know why the default value of session.gc_maxlifetime is >> 1440 seconds >> (24 minutes)? >> >> Best regards, >> >> Markus >> > > I would think its a design choice by the maker. You should read this to > see how probability/divisor are accounted for as well: > > http://stackoverflow.com/a/1270960/1935500 >