There was a buggy version that was doing this. Could have been 2.2.1. Not sure. Please upgrade to the latest. The reason is that is was saving sessions even when data was not stored/changed. Therefore is the cookie was not returned it would start making new session files/records.
On Wednesday, 17 April 2013 08:26:30 UTC-5, Yarin wrote: > > 2.2.1 > > On Wednesday, April 17, 2013 9:16:41 AM UTC-4, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: >> >> Which web2py version? >> >> On Wednesday, 17 April 2013 08:08:48 UTC-5, Yarin wrote: >>> >>> (This question stems from an issue first brought up >>> here<https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/web2py/iAlrv6yaHWk> >>> ) >>> >>> We store user sessions in the DB using the web2py_session_{app} table. >>> Inspecting the table, we've noticed a strange pattern happening over and >>> over again: >>> >>> Many of our app actions update the session. Generally, when a user hits >>> the app and causes a session update, a single session record associated >>> with that client gets updated in the DB. Additionally, however, we're >>> noticing a large number of one-time 'orphan' session records which will >>> also be tied to the same IP, but that have created_datetime = >>> modified_datetime, meaning they were never updated. >>> >>> These one-time session records are usually spaced a few seconds or >>> minutes apart, as if they were being created once per request. Some days >>> there are dozens of these records, other days there are none. Each of these >>> session records has its own unique key. >>> >>> It's happening in both remote production (LAMP) and local dev (MAMP) >>> environments. In both environments, however, no session records exist that >>> are older than 3/10 (Today is 4/17), so something is clearing them out. >>> >>> I can't make sense of this. Ideas? >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
