[pmwiki-users] 90,000 Session Files

[Ed W]

Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 02:27:20PM -0400, DaveG wrote:
>   
>>> [...] Ultimately it's simply the fact that the captchas are
>>> being displayed that is causing the files to be generated.
>>>       
>> How do other platforms handle this? I've not *noticed* this problem on  
>> WP sites for example. Perhaps something like ReCaptcha  
>> (http://recaptcha.net/plugins/php/) uses a different mechanism?
>>     
>
> Well, on most sites I suspect the session files get cleaned up 
> after about 24 minutes, so they never really accumulate.
>
>   

An optimisation other sites use is not to store an empty session - is 
this possible with PHP/pmwiki?

Ed
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