Posted by Fraser Tweedale on 12/06/05 13:44

mmm, a valid point. thank you.

looking further into the matter; the only real advantage would be to
have instances of php on multiple machines accessing the same session
data on, for example, a central memcache server. For very large
applications spread across multiple machines, that would be a more
practical and scalable solution then using files; that is, if the same
session data need to be accessed from different machines.

thanks again,

frase

Ian wrote:
> Fraser Tweedale wrote:
>
>> Do you suppose / does anyone know whether it would be faster to use
>> the default 'files' session handler, or to define new session handlers
>> that interact with a memcache process running on the same machine?
>>
> I don't know about Windows, but on a UNIX system, session files in /tmp
> will generally be in RAM, provided there is enough in the server to
> avoid paging.
>
> Ian

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