Not urban legend. We had the dev server here on "single threaded sessions".
One user: good speed Two users: average speed Three users: slow Four users: very slow Five users: craaaaawwwwllll This was bad. Very bad. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Meade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 10:10 AM Subject: Re: Complete lack of locking... > No offense, but it sounds like urban legend to me. Assuming it's properly > implemented, the "Single Threaded Sessions" option should only have a > significant effect in situations where two ColdFusion requests are being made > at the same time within the same session, i.e. when two browser framed windows > are loaded at once. Even on a framed site, this would be a relatively rare > event. > > I've never heard a convincing argument for locking session variable access. > The only exception I make is when I don't have control of the CF Administrator > settings. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Philip Arnold - ASP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 4:40 AM > Subject: RE: Complete lack of locking... > > > > > Why not just enable the "Single Threaded Sessions" option? Doesn't that > > > eliminate the need to lock session-scoped variable access? > > > > DRASTIC! > > > > That'd mean that only one person who access the site at a time - severely > > limiting the access to the site > > > > It'd be a LOT safer to re-write the application properly to include locking > > > > I know how he feels - we inherited a server with 1,400+ templates, no > > locking in any of them! On the server it's running on, it's a dual processor > > and both are at 90%+ all the time as it tries to handle the locking itself > > > > Philip Arnold > > Director > > Certified ColdFusion Developer > > ASP Multimedia Limited > > T: +44 (0)20 8680 1133 > > > > "Websites for the real world" > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
