How to disable drupal sessions in DB

By gchan on 7 Jun 2007 at 19:25 UTC

We are running a high traffic site on Drupal 5.1 and the drupal session db query/updates are causing problems (DB size explosion).

Does anyone know how to:

1. disable drupal session DB updates
2. alternatives to fix db session problem
3. Any other ways to address this issue

Comments

kbahey commented 7 June 2007 at 21:05

PHP should do it for you, if you have session.gc_lifetime set correctly.

If not, you can use this patch to expire old sessions.

http://drupal.org/node/72856
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niklp commented 8 June 2007 at 13:16

just for future reference, can you explicitly tell us curious folk what "set correctly" means...? :)

Are there generally good settings, or ones that are more preferable to use with Drupal, etc?

Thanks