MILLIONS of php session files in phptmp dir

[robmorin]

Hello all....

i have a few heavy websites.... one of them has 1.9 million sess_ files in the phptmp dir.... Waz up with that?

i can not do an ls as there are too many files, i got that number from my backup system, it was talking 14 hours to complete backups.... after 2 days of trying out to figure why i noticed that the amount of files that are backed up tripled, but the disk space occupied did not go up by much... so i check for tmp files, and sure enough there are lots in there... so i guess i will rm -rf the dir and then re create it....

Should i be deleting these files on a regular basis? i thought they got deleted automagically?

Thanks..
Rob..