Re: Very high speed session management -- help me test

Mark wrote:

Jochem Maas wrote:

hi Mark, Mark wrote:

I have a program called MCache, it used to be MSession. I'm trying to get

why 'Cache' - its a session handler right? (I think the name is a little confusing, but maybe its just me - I have been adding cache mechanisms to a site for the last month or so!)

Because it is more of a cache, I envision using it to cache PHP objects independent of sessions. Think of how you'd implement a poll site. MCache is designed to handle concurrency and provide some limited atomic numeric functions.

That does sound very interesting. I woudl still suggest that you change the name to something that reflects the nature of the beast - namely its ability to handle concurrency and the fact that it's designed for a distributed/load-balanced env. There are alot of 'Cache' and 'Session' named things out there - and especially in the php world these names don't evoke the functional abilities you tool seems to have. just a thought.

is this better than using the 'files' session handler and setting the session save path to a tmpfs filesystem (in effect a RAM disk) in a signle server env.?

This is not really intended for a single server site, but could provide some benefit as a way of abstracting file or SQL session storage.

ok; although that doesn't answer my question. another thing if it's not really intended for a signle server site then youre audience here is rather limited - I'm guessing that there are not many here running distributed/load-balanced systems. I don't atm; but it almost makes me want to go out and get a server to try it out.

the word out and get some testers. The server itself is GPL, the PHP extension is under the PHP license. I will be checking it in to the PHP main CVS repository when I'm pretty sure that it will play nice. The server can be accessed via CVS from www.mohawksoft.org. If you have any questions please feel free to ask.