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Hi, 

I have finally identified one of the biggest causes of why our sites keep slowing right down and it seems due to very large session tables that seem to fill up quite quickly. I see admin tools has a session table cleaner and wondered if there is any way to set this to run automatically daily at a specific time?

Kind regards

Mel

Oh WOW!

Think I have found it! All these years I have been using Admin Tools and never looked at Site Maintenance tool. I believe this does the job. I just had to enable Optimise session? as this was disabled.

Hi Davide,

thanks for your response and the helpful link. 

I am just investigating this further as mine isnt yet working correctly and also looking at my php settings.

If I want to run session cleaner every hour as suggest, should my session.gc_maxlifetime in PHP be set to 60, and not the default 1440? Should the session in Joomla configuration be set to 60 (or 30?) 

These were all different and when I checked after the hour the table hadn't cleared so i am guessing it may have something to do with the value in session.gc_maxlifetime?

Kind regards

Hi, 

an update, it works beautifully with the settings in my last message.

For anyone else who has these issues, I have it set to 60 in Joomla Session (filesystem), 1440 in php both on the server and withing php on each website. I do not have cache enabled on Joomla and it doesn't seem to impact performance. It now clears the session table every hour.

Thank you so much for this. So pleased. Wish I had found this tool sooner!