Just for information purposes we use session variables exclusively to manage our
personalization sessions and have not
yet gone up over 15% of memory usage. There are a minimum of actual variables used in
a session (an array of link
values, name, breed and breed image, plus a few flag fields). We are on a sun es 5500
quad with 3 gigs of memory so it
is a pretty hefty box but it is our only webserver.
We recieve anywhere from 300,000 to 500,000 page views and 2-3,000,000 "hits" a day
and 30,000 to 40,000 "sessions.
This form of personalization is also scalable over a cluster as all the infomation
that is stored in session variables
is extracted from the database on any hit to the website if there is not already a
session created for the user.
If I were using many variables or variables that hold alot of data I would not
recommend using this method. To tell the
truth I wanted to use client vars but the dba's did not want to allow that many hits
to the database and also did not
want to create a table to hold them.
I do have to say this method works great as it is now.
Thanks,
Frederic
Fuon See Tu wrote:
> hey guys, a friend of mine who is a pretty advanced CF programmer says that
> I should stay away from using sessions when developing sites that have a
> pretty good load of users, because sessions take up wayyyyyyyy too much
> memory, and that I should resort to cookies or client cookies instead. This
> makes me very sad, cuz i really like sessions a lot, and am about to develop
> a complex and lots-of-users site. Sessions are really easy to work with for
> me! Maybe he is wrong or is missing something? Can one of yall make me
> happy again? or gimme some suggestions?
>
> thanx
>
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