I believe that session information will be stored as cookies at the client
machine and won't cause too much load on the server.
I think it will be more effecient than doing database calls.
Saurabh
>From: Vaishali Joshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Subject: Limit on Session variables and Performance
>Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 09:14:44 EDT
>
>Hi All Java gurus
>
>Does anyone has any idea about performance of a site if lots of information
>is stored in a session. There may not be too many sessions at one time, but
>in one session lots of information (around 100 variables) will be stored.
>Some of the information will be too long too as description.
>We are having a tabbed web application, and the issue is whether to store
>the information in a database as we move from one tab to another or should
>we store it in session. Putting it in database will be like lots of calls
>to
>database, and if the user changes the information by going back and forth
>between tabs then we are doing lots of rewriting to the database. And at
>the
>end, user might even cancel everything, so we will end up having these
>kinds
>of useless records in database. But I am not sure about how putting this
>huge number of data in session will affect the performance. The other
>option
>is putting some data in session and some in temp tables..
>
>I would appreciate if you can throw some light on these issues..
>
>Thanks
>Vaishali
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