Re: session_start() may take 5 seconds :(

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Tolas Anon <tolas777@gmail.com> wrote: > My web-app sometimes takes just over 5 seconds to execute a single > start_session() statement. > No other connections are open to the site when i hit the button that > makes this happen, the session is just 78kb on a local disk, and it's > consistent behavior. > So far, it only happens when i request certain page content via AJAX, > but I'd like to get rid of it asap. > Strangely, some other page content requested under the same conditions > via the same pipeline returns without the delay. It doesn't do > anything differently except the business code, and the session is > opened in app-wide generic code that is executed before the business > code is executed. The very timing with microtime() happens before the > business code executes. > > I've already googled, but haven't found anything useful. > > It's on a windows box (latest wampserver) and due to a ubuntu firefox > limitation i can't test on linux at the moment, nor run strace on it > :( > This afternoon, all my business logic had the same delay, due to session_start(). I bypassed the ubuntu firefox problem and was able to test under linux; no delay. So i'll mail the wampserver admin of this problem, and continue under ubuntu.