[BNM] session_start causing PHP to hang

[James Moss]

We have a ajax request which fires on page load on nearly every page. I
think this is somehow causing the session file to become locked.  I have
some free time this afternoon so im going to look into it then.  I shall let
you know how I get on.


On 04/06/2008, David Andrew <david.andrew at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi James
>
> Did you manage to resolve the issue? I believe there is a similar
> issue with one f my clients.
>
> D
>
> 2008/6/3 James Moss <email at jamesmoss.co.uk>:
> > Just a few simple strings and integers, nothing as complex as recursive
> data
> > structures.
> >
> > I think I might have just found something in the manual:
> >
> > "It seems that the session file is opened exclusively.
> > On some occasions (Windows) I have found that the file lock is not
> released
> > properly for whatever reason, therefore causing session_start() to hang
> > infinitely on any future script executions.
> > My way round this problem was to use session_set_save_handler() and make
> > sure the write function used fopen($file, 'w') instead of fopen($file,
> 'x')"
> >
> > This sounds very similar to our situation...
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 03/06/2008, Alex Farran <alex at alexfarran.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> What's stored in your session?  Could it be stuck in an infinite loop
> >> deserialising a recursive data structure?
> >>
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