Re: Sessions running out of storage space - Increase memory?

Dan wrote: > I need to retrieve a huge amount of data form a database and do so many > times. To eliminate the overhead of connecting to the database and > pulling down all that info over and over, I'm trying to pull it down > only once and stick it into a session. The problem is I get the first > few results and everything works fine. But then after those first 5 or > so I only get 0's. My first thought is that this is because of a limit > on memory that sessions can take up or file size/space where the > sessions are stored. I looked in the PHP.INI and I didn't find anything > though. > > Any ideas on how to fix this problem or a more elegant solution to my > huge data needs? > > - Dan APC? apc_store('some_array',serialize($some_array),86400); caches $some_array in RAM for 24 hours. $some_array = unserialize(apc_fetch('some_array')); brings it back out. Note - don't do this if you're dealing with massive amounts of data unique to each session_id, though. Come to think of it... if you're dealing with massive amounts of data for each session_id, that might be part of your problem. :) Matt