Thanx for the speedy feedback.

I had to wait to for an opportune moment to shut down hunchentoot on my live server.

Steps

1. I restarted it with the *session-gc-frequency* (5000) and *session-max-time* (3600) values I wanted (before I creating any acceptors).

2. Logged into my application and then left the system for 15 minutes, it timed out when I tried to resume.

3. I then placed a trace on HUNCHENTOOT::SESSION-TOO-OLD-P as suggested and it comes back with a NIL, I pushed the system to make more than 50 new sessions.

4. I logged in again and left the system for 15 minutes and again it timed out when I tried to resume. All this time HUNCHENTOOT::SESSION-TOO-OLD-P is returning NIL.

I know I am grasping at straws now, but could the *SESSION-MAX-TIME* not working have something to do with the fact that the client and the server are in different time zones? If I run the server on my development box the session does not time out like on the server.


Regards
Phil


On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 13:13 +0200, Hans Hübner wrote: 
Phil,

are you sure that youre new value for *SESSION-MAX-TIME* is used by
your sessions?  Try tracing HUNCHENTOOT::SESSION-TOO-OLD-P and check
the log file for entries saying "Session with ID <id> too old".  If
you see those messages in the log, or if
HUNCHENTOOT::SESSION-TOO-OLD-P returns a true value for a session,
your *SESSION-MAX-TIME* change has not been seen by Hunchentoot.

One reason could be that you're changing the value of the global
variable after you started Hunchentoot in multi-threaded mode.  In
that case, the changed value might not be picked up.

Let us know how you proceed.

-Hans

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 12:46, Phil Marneweck <zaries@global.co.za> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Is there any thing more than *session-gc-frequency* and
> *session-max-time* that influences session time outs?
>
> Because it does not matter how high I set these values the session keeps
> on timing out with in a couple of minutes!
>
> Can those values be set at any time or do they have to be set before any
> acceptors are created?
>
> Any help would be much appreciated this is causing me major pain on a
> live site.
>
>
>
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