I have some questions about how session state works: When you store something in session state, if it stored locally on the users’s side? Do the values used in the session state affect the resources limit of 1GB? When are the session state values removed and stop affecting the resource limi…

No Yes Yes See 3, but you might want to delete something before that (I never found a use case for that, though).

Thanks, @Goyo ! I appreciate all the answers. I’m still not sure what you mean by you might want to delete something before that Should I do del st.session_state [key] or should I just let the user close the tab and hope that the state session stuff is cleared?

Session data will be automatically deleted after the session ends, but you can do it before if you want. I have never done that, but I guess there may be use cases where it makes sense.

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mansidak February 19, 2023, 12:38am 5

@Goyo Gotchu. That makes sense. I’m just trying to navigate how the resource limit would scale wrt session states. Your answer helps. Thanks!

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