Sessions table

[Falcon4ever]

Hi,

I've been running mybb on my sites for quite sometime and on one of my bigger sites I'm getting a lot of anonymous users/guests. (It's used as a sort of CMS)

Normally this isn't a problem but this huge amount gives me a very large session table. Because most of the people are visiting the site only once in a few weeks, this session data isn't really useful.

Because of the large amount of session entries the forum itself is becoming slow. For now I have implanted a function which removed/flushes the session entries each xx hour. This solves the speed problem on the forums but...

I wonder if mybb itself has an option to set a session lifetime? I couldn't find any option in the admincp.

*edit* about my table sizes:
Rows 782,967 (sessions table)
Effective 174.404 KB ( ~170 mb)

[Ryan Gordon]

I agree. My forum went down once because my sessions table was too huge. It should trim itself every so often so it doesn't go bad.

[Falcon4ever]

So perhaps it's an idea to implent something for future releases ?

[Christian]

So do you want this moved to Suggestions then?

btw, I agree, this would be a nice feature.

[Ryan Gordon]

Yeh, moved.

[Chris Boulton]

I did think we actually had this.

It appears we didn't.

Oh well, in 1.2.2 MyBB will automatically clear guest sessions older than 24 hours.