While researching some information regarding managing state and session in web applications, I stumbled across this nugget of information:67 is the first useful prime number after 60. (Yes, 61 is a prime,  too, but it's too close to 60 to be of use.) Setting timeouts in  durations of primes is common because it lessens the likelihood that  two timeout sessions will overlap.Of course, that's completely anecdotal and may not in any way be the  reason why they chose 67 minutes, but that's always made sense to me.At first glance, this seems to make perfect sense to me, and traditionally, I've never given a lot of thought to the variance of sessions timing out, but I wonder how much (if any) this strategy has been put into place in practice? Would making a change to timeouts ending on prime numbers really have that much of an effect long-term in a large scale application? Or would a change like this go mostly unnoticed?In other words, is this really anecdotal? Or is it something that should be strongly considered as a best practice?
Should I Prefer Session Timeouts Based off of Prime Numbers?
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