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Magento 1.9 Session Files clearing

Hi I currently have a magento 1.9 site which i use session storage as files as i find that using the database is very slow.

I currently have about 16 gig of session files which i want to delete.

If I run:

find . -name ‘sess*’ -mtime +7 -exec rm -f {} ;

The site grinds to a halt and then kills the database attached.

I then looked at garbage collection I changed:

session.gc_probability = 1
session.gc_divisor = 100

When I did this and restarted apache the site crashed too?

What would be the best way to remove these files?

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  1. 0

    You can delete the whole folder, from your Magento Root with the following

    rm -rf var/session/*

    Also, if you have enought RAM, you should consider using Redis to store session. Here is a nice tuto for Magento 1.

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  2. 0

    first go to the var/session folder of the magento root directory

    find . -name "*" -print | xargs rm -rf

    This command will delete all the data in the current folder without prompting you.

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