Re: Why use sessions and not DB?

Mark Maggelet wrote: > On Wed, 30 Aug 2000 09:53:12 +1000, Jason Murray > (jason.murray@melbourneit.com.au) wrote: > > >> Agreed. Storing session info into database will let you scale > >> to multiple front end machines much easier. If that's even a > >> remote possibility, you'd want to store info in a db. > > Maybe, but the performance difference you'll see now will depend on > your database or filesystem. I know Mysql isn't especially good at > doing lots of inserts and updates, while a reiserFS is especially > good with dealing with lots of small files. > > it just depends on too many things to say one thing is definitely > better. If it were me though, I'd go with the filesystem because I've > had too many hassles with a table locking up on me and bringing down > my whole site. > I've not ever had that problem, but I see your point. The recommendation does depend on your system setup. > > - Mark > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net -- ========================== Michael Kimsal http://www.tapinternet.com 734-480-9961