So the application is not doing anything with caching, I'm just using the default framework setting in config.yml
framework:
# ...
session: ~
Looking in the
project/app/cache/prod/session
directory I see session files from 6 months ago and it's causing a DISK FULL error/issue.
If I run the command
df -h
The disk space looks fine, if I run the command
df -i
I see it's full or almost full
for the php.ini it's all default settings, running ubuntu 12.04 LTS and PHP 5.3.x
Why isn't the Garbage Collection working? When I clear the Cache it's fine and cleans up but to my understanding the session should be removed after 4 hours, any ideas?
If anyone else has this issue here is how to fix it:
Here is what is configured in
( All three are the same )
session.gc_probability = 0
session.gc_divisor = 1000
session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440
I also looked in to
/etc/cron.d/php5
and it should remove the sessions using this value session.gc_maxlifetime
# /etc/cron.d/php5: crontab fragment for php5
# This purges session files older than X, where X is defined in seconds
# as the largest value of session.gc_maxlifetime from all your php.ini
# files, or 24 minutes if not defined. See /usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime
# Look for and purge old sessions every 30 minutes
09,39 * * * * root [ -x /usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime ] && [ -d /var/lib/php5 ] && find /var/lib/php5/ -depth -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type f -cmin +$(/usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime) -delete
The problem is my sessions are not in the standard location and are not cleaned up because of this.
Configuring the framwerwork session save_path to:
/var/lib/php5
You can also set this value to the save_path of your php.ini by setting the value to null:
# app/config/config.yml
framework:
session:
save_path: null
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