I am unaware of any setting to have session stored in memcache only. I think that you are correct on deleting these entities. I have it on my task list to delete old sessions programmatically by scheduled task.
Take a look at http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3049 too. On Jun 10, 6:44 pm, jgardner <jgardner...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > Quick question about session management on google app engine. So it > seems like GAE keeps session in Memcache and in datastore which is > great. However it doesn't seem like it removes the session records > from the datastore when they expire. So my _ah_SESSION table is > really big and growing. I have to go in there and manually delete the > entries. I was wondering if it's possible to get it to remove those > sessions after they expire or even to just turn off the datastore part > and just memcache. > > Or do I have to delete the values from BigTable in my application? > > thanks > jeff -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine for Java" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine-java@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine-java+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en.