What is the best practice to clear old session files from cache?

25 Sep 2012, 5:00 PM

#1

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What is the best practice to clear old session files from cache?

I started noticing that my site was becoming slower and slower and finally found it was due to 6500+ sessions .log files sitting in the cache folder. Deleting them sped up the site dramatically. How can I make sure no more than a few days of sessions are stored?

My install: was Vanilla 1.3.9h, now 1.5.5b, Apache 2.4, PHP 7.0.6, MySQL 5.5.8 64b, Windows 7 64b, 8GB RAM, i3 3.3gHz
Modules: [Payment=Paypal] [Shipping=Canada Post 1.5.3 merged] [nonCAPTCHA]

25 Sep 2012, 5:05 PM

#2

design75

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Re: What is the best practice to clear old session files from cache?

they should flush automatically by default. i am not site what coupe stop the flushung. did you set the right folder permissions?

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25 Sep 2012, 5:11 PM

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drbyte

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Re: What is the best practice to clear old session files from cache?

No, the log files do not automatically purge themselves.
You can do a manual clearing of the log files via the Admin->Tools->Store Manager.

Also, if you upgrade to v1.5.1 the problem is mitigated by putting the logs elsewhere. Something to look forward to when you upgrade ;)

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25 Sep 2012, 6:04 PM

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one_tall_man

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Re: What is the best practice to clear old session files from cache?

Design75:

they should flush automatically by default. i am not site what coupe stop the flushung. did you set the right folder permissions?

As it runs on Windows, I don't see any issues with access. If it was on Linux, could have been an issue.

DrByte:

You can do a manual clearing of the log files via the Admin->Tools->Store Manager.

Also, if you upgrade to v1.5.1 the problem is mitigated by putting the logs elsewhere. Something to look forward to when you upgrade ;)

I don't see this site ever being upgraded. We have modules and a bit of customization, which is a royal PITA to upgrade.

My install: was Vanilla 1.3.9h, now 1.5.5b, Apache 2.4, PHP 7.0.6, MySQL 5.5.8 64b, Windows 7 64b, 8GB RAM, i3 3.3gHz
Modules: [Payment=Paypal] [Shipping=Canada Post 1.5.3 merged] [nonCAPTCHA]