Re: Memcached as Session Handler

APseudoUtopia wrote:

Hey list, I run a website that integrates MemCache, MySQL, and PHP sessions very heavily. I recently came across some documentation on the PHP site that informs me that I can use MemCache as the session.save_handler, instead of files. I know there would be no redundancy of the session data with this type of setup, in the event that the MemCache daemon fails. However the website is run on a single server and a single MemCache daemon, with a single IDE HDD. I'm curious as to if anyone else uses MemCache as the session.save_handler? What are the pros and cons of doing this? I figured it would help out with disk I/O and overall performance because MemCache would be much faster than the IDE drive, and I update/reference the $_SESSION data very often.

Well I use it in a multi-server environment. While I don't technically need it in this setup it certainly can help in some circumstances. If you want to expand to a dual server with round-robin DNS load balancing, then memcache will defo help. No idea about benchmarks and performance vs files tho' so can't really help with that! Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]