session.save_path. Is the garbage collector running?

Question

PHP

Overridden the sessions storage folder with the following code:

ini_set('session.gc_maxlifetime', 65535);
ini_set('session.cookie_lifetime', 65535);
ini_set('session.save_path', realpath('').'/sessions');

It seems that now sessions are stored for too long. I'm afraid that more than 1.5k files in one folder can slow down the server. What can be done?

Answer 1

The number of files in a folder does not affect the speed in any way.
Of course, if this folder does not copy / get a listing / and all that.