Title: PHP Session
Last modified: April 11, 2018

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# PHP Session

 *  Resolved [wholesomeyum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wholesomeyum/)
 * (@wholesomeyum)
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-session-2/)
 * Does Related Posts For WP use PHP sessions anywhere? Ever since installing, we
   have had problems with excessive PHP processes spawning and overloading the server,
   it becomes completely unresponsive. It only happens under load and goes away 
   when we disable Related Posts For WordPress. It also goes away if we disable 
   PHP session permissions, indicating that the PHP processes are the result of 
   every user using PHP sessions. Due to the large number of users this is not feasible
   and I’m wondering if there is any possible fix. Thank you.

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 *  Plugin Author [Barry Kooij](https://wordpress.org/support/users/barrykooij/)
 * (@barrykooij)
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-session-2/#post-10173517)
 * Hey [@wholesomeyum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wholesomeyum/),
 * I’m sorry to hear that! We’re not using PHP sessions or anything else but your
   WordPress database and to store information. We’re also not spawning any additional
   PHP processes on page load, we do 1 SQL query to fetch the cache from your database.
 * Is there perhaps any debug information in your error logs? If you’re not hosting
   your website yourself, you can check with your host.
 * Looking forward to your response.
 * Kind Regards,
 * Barry Kooij

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 * Last activity: [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-session-2/#post-10173517)
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