Posted by Mladen Gogala on 05/15/06 23:47

monomaniac21 wrote:
> Hi im planning on creating a site which logs muliple session variables
> for each user. Would this kind of site eventually start to lag over
> time bcos of server memory being used up to store session data or do
> sessions use very little of system resources even for very popular
> sites?
>

Unless you have a special handler that stores session data in memory,
session data is usually stored in a file of the form sess_<SES_ID>.
Having gazillion of these files open might slow down your server but
will not deplete of memory.

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