Re: PHP web farms (i.e. why msession or something like it)

> derick@php.net wrote: > >>> At 10:20 25/05/2002 -0400, mlwmohawk@mohawksoft.com wrote: >>> >Marginalizing this capability IMHO is not the right direction, I >>> >think there should, in fact, be a stronger push for this sort of >>> >capability to be built in by default. >> >> Agree with that too... but if something like this should be >> mainstream, all components should in be in the PHP source tree, >> including the daemon. >> > > I personally think the best solution would be something like the > postgresql session extension, except generalized to work with any (or > at least several) databases. Built-in MySQL session support is > definitely needed. The problem with using databases are they they are expensive and they are slow. A generalized PostgreSQL session manager would be cool, I have actually been thinking about such an extension. Using the schema from the PG msession plugin, it would be fairly easy. Alas, the problems with PostgreSQL as a session manager are many. MySQL is just as bad, but for different reasons. :-) It is because the databases fall flat as session managers that I wrote msession in the first place. > > Right now I don't run any web farms, but I used to work for a company > with 125+ web servers, so I understand the problem. 125??!! All serving the same content? All maintaining a coherent environment? What did you use for session data?