As I understand it, clustercats will loadbalance an initial request to a server with the best response time. Every request after that from the same session will then be re-directed to the same server. This is "sticky sessions" and will(should) enable you to keep using session variables. If you weren't using sticky sessions, the server that processes the request from the client would probably change for every request. In that case, I imagine the best thing to do would be convert all session vars to client so they be returned to the server for proper processing.
- Matt Small -----Original Message----- From: Matt Kornguth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 2:20 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: ClusterCATS and "stickiness My company is getting ready to move to a clustered environment. We currently use session variables for our shopping cart. I keep seeing posts about needing to convert to client variables for load balancing, despite the fact that the CF5 Advanced CF Administration manual (chp 12, Configuring ColdFusion Clusters) states: "To ensure that users are not redirected from the server on which they start their session, ClusterCATS provides a built-in feature for enabling session-aware load balancing." So ... I'm getting nervous here. Does anyone have experience with session-aware load balancing in ClusterCATS? Is there some reason that everyone is recommending client variables? Thanks in advance, Matt Kornguth Web Applications Developer BLR.com ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. 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
