[Zope] Session Timeout Changes on it own?

[Jonathan Hobbs]

From: <hpinson at indepthl.com>
> Yesterday, I set my Transient Object Container "Data object timeout
> value in minutes" to a value of 120 and clicked change. The new
> increased value appeared to take.
>
> This morning, the timeout value had revereted to 20.  I am not aware
> of doing anything to make this happen.
>
> Does anyone have an explanation from this unexplained behavior in the
> sessioning mechanism.

Session data is (usually) stored inside 'temporary_folder' which is held in
memory (ie. not stored persistently in the zodb).  If you restart zope you
will lose anything stored/set in a temporary_folder.

Jonathan