https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/creates-millions-of-temp-files-causes-server-lag Gravity Support Forums Topic: Creates Millions of Temp Files Causes Server Lag en-US Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:20:41 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/creates-millions-of-temp-files-causes-server-lag#post-149439 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 14:31:19 +0000 Chris Hajer 149439@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Gravity Forms does not use session files (however, PHP does.) I'm not sure where those files were coming from. What caused you to believe they were coming from Gravity Forms specifically?</p> <p>It seems to me that session files in the temp folder should be cleaned up by Windows, but that is not happening. I found this related discussion: <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/q/10214934/" rel="nofollow">http://stackoverflow.com/q/10214934/</a> </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/creates-millions-of-temp-files-causes-server-lag#post-149356 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 12:18:08 +0000 wrightimc 149356@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>We're on an IIS7 server. The files were saved to c:\windows\temp and the files are all named sess_*. Let me know if you need anything else. Thank you! </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/creates-millions-of-temp-files-causes-server-lag#post-148827 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 00:11:58 +0000 Chris Hajer 148827@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Can you explain what the temp files were (example names of the files) and in what folder they are located? Any information you can share will be helpful to resolving this issue for you. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/creates-millions-of-temp-files-causes-server-lag#post-147025 Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:34:26 +0000 wrightimc 147025@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>We use to use GF on our site but the client requested we remove it because it created over a million temp files on the server which caused a HUGE lag. It almost lost them a major client.</p> <p>We just installed it back on the site and are now testing. However, I was wondering what caused this issue to begin with and how it can be avoided. If necessary, I will provide an admin login credentials.</p> <p>Thank you. </p>