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[Hans Zaunere]

Jeff Siegel wrote:

> Plenty of disk space and all permissions are set correctly.
> Let me also add that this seems to be an intermittent problem and not 
> one that is tied to, say, a browser version issue. It can happen if 
> someone is using a very old browser version or a new one but it is *not* 
> easily reproducible in either case.
> 
> One of the Googled solutions mentioned setting up a new tmp directory. 
> However, my guess is that the directory would not accomplish anything (I 
> would think) since all permissions are already set correctly on the 
> server and there is a lot of disk space.
> 
> Someone did write (again, this comes from my Googling) that this seems 
> to happen "under load" though the writer was not particularly helpful in 
> defining "under load." It should be noted, however, that the server has 
> DEFINITELY experienced an increase in hits since the average number of 
> transactions through the site has nearly doubled in the past two days 
> from approximately 500 per day to a bit over 900 per day. So...that 
> translates to 900 or so session files per day with the bulk of them 
> happening between the hours of 6am and 10pm. Just seems like a lot of 
> session files in a short period of time.

What's the general number of files in /tmp ?  Are we talking thousands?  Might be time to increase the garbage collector frequency; or, upgrade PHP as we had talked about :)

H