How Often Does Garbage Collector Runs In Sessions?
Does anybody knows how often the session garbage collector checks for expired session to delete them? is it possible to modify this timeframe? is it possible to call this function manually?
I am storing my sessions in a mysql database and i am using a session expiration of 5 seconds (just for testing), but after the session is expired the session record in the db table still exists.
and it looks the sessions aren't expiring either because if you still have the session cookie you can keep up with the session. Code:
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