[Chameleon] Interference with PHP's Garbage Collection

[Abe Gillespie]

I did (as stated in my first post).  Unfortunately, even with the
probability set at 1 (always) it's not working.

- Abe

On 5/9/06, Delfos, Jacob <Jacob.Delfos at maunsell.com> wrote:
> I didn't realise Chameleon had a function for this. I have always used
> an application I built for this (I suppose it reduces the overhead of
> garbage collection).
>
> I guess the reason I never realised is because the default probability
> of garbage collection occuring on the start of a session is 1 in 1000.
>
> Abe, try playing with the "session.gc_probability" in php.ini.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jacob
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: chameleon-bounces at lists.maptools.org
> > [mailto:chameleon-bounces at lists.maptools.org] On Behalf Of
> > Julien-Samuel Lacroix
> > Sent: 10 May 2006 01:22
> > To: Abe Gillespie
> > Cc: chameleon at lists.maptools.org; Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS)
> > Subject: Re: [Chameleon] Interference with PHP's Garbage Collection
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Are you on Windows or Linux?
> >
> > Here's the garbage collection function. Do you see any problem in it?
> > First thing can be to set bDebug to true  and the szDebugDir
> > at the top
> > of chameleon/htdocs/common/session/session.php
> >
> > Julien
> >
> > /**
> >   * _gc Called by PHP session manager when a session is started or
> >   * register (not all the time) depending og session.gc_probability
> >   */
> > function _gc($nMaxLifeTime)
> > {
> >     if ($GLOBALS["bDebug"])
> >      {
> >        debug_msg("_gc called");
> >      }
> >      if ($GLOBALS['gszGarbageColectionCallBackFunction'] != "")
> >      {
> >          if
> > (function_exists($GLOBALS['gszGarbageColectionCallBackFunction']))
> >              eval($GLOBALS['gszGarbageColectionCallBackFunction']);
> >      }
> >
> >      if ( !(PHP_OS == "WINNT" || PHP_OS == "WIN32") )
> >      {
> >        @touch($GLOBALS['gszSessSavePath']."/deleteme",
> > time()-$nMaxLifeTime*60);
> >        system("find ".$GLOBALS['gszSessSavePath']." -name
> > sess_* ! -newer ".
> >               $GLOBALS['gszSessSavePath']."/deleteme -exec rm
> > -rf {} \; ");
> >
> >        return true;
> >      }
> >
> >      $bReturn = true;
> >
> >      if (!$hDir = @opendir($GLOBALS['gszSessSavePath']))
> >      {
> >          return false;
> >      }
> >
> >      while($szFile = readdir($hDir))
> >      {
> >          if (!strstr($szFile,'sess_'))
> >              continue;
> >
> >          if (strpos($szFile,'sess_') != 0)
> >              continue;
> >
> >          $szSessionDir = $GLOBALS['gszSessSavePath']."/".$szFile;
> >          $szSessionFile = $szSessionDir."/session_file";
> >
> >          if (!($mtime = @filemtime($szSessionFile)))
> >          {
> >              $bReturn=false;
> >              continue;
> >          }
> >
> >          if (time() > $mtime + $nMaxLifeTime)
> >          {
> >              $bReturn = (deleteDirectory($szSessionDir)) ?
> > $bReturn : false;
> >          }
> >          closedir($hDir);
> >
> >          return $bReturn;
> >      }
> > }
> >
> >
> >
> > Abe Gillespie wrote:
> > > I'm afraid I will have to do that myself.  I like to stick with
> > > built-in (i.e. "supported") technology where I can.  I might not be
> > > able to in this case.
> > >
> > > Thanks for the help though.  Anyone else wanna chime in?
> > >
> > > -Abe
> > >
> > > On 5/9/06, Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS) <bartvde at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Abe,
> > >>
> > >> we use a shell script to clean out the files instead.
> > >>
> > >> Best regards,
> > >> Bart
> > >>
> > >> Abe Gillespie wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > I'm trying to pin down a problem with PHP's session tmp directory
> > >> > growing out of control.  The problem grabbed my attention when a
> > >> > customer's server ran out of space.  At that point the session
> > >> > directory was 13.5G!
> > >> >
> > >> > I set the probability of garbage collection to 100 / 100 ... or
> > >> > "always collect."  This has not helped since I see files
> > beyond the
> > >> > default age of 1440 seconds.
> > >> >
> > >> > Anyone else experiencing this or have a clue what I'm missing?
> > >> >
> > >> > System:
> > >> > The only PHP app is Chameleon.
> > >> > Chameleon 2.2
> > >> > Apache 2.0.54
> > >> > PHP 4.4.0
> > >> >
> > >> > All php.ini settings are default as included with
> > php.ini.recommended
> > >> > except for:
> > >> > session.gc_probability = 100
> > >> > session.gc_divisor     = 100
> > >> >
> > >> > Help is greatly appreciated.
> > >> > -Abe
> > >> >
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> > >> >
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> Bart van den Eijnden
> > >> OSGIS, Open Source GIS
> > >> http://www.osgis.nl
> > >>
> > >>
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