Personally, I would add in the logic to clean up old sessions periodically or during login. Also, is there a reason you are not using Rails 2.1.2 or even better 2.2.2? Staying updated with Rails versions usually resolves any odd defect that you see.
Thanks, Mukund On Jan 7, 3:36 am, Tim <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey all, > > Most of our customers get through our shopping cart no problem so > orders continue to flow. However we've recently (past 10 days) > started receiving reports of people not being able to add items to > their cart. This seems to be affecting 2-3% of our customers. Taking > a look at the logs I can see the sessions getting completely lost just > as if the client had cookies disabled. I see no other warnings or > errors. > > We did have nearly 350k sessions accumulated in our sessions table > which I cleared out to around 40k last night. We haven't got any > reports since then but I can't say yet if it's helped. I'm sure their > have been other times when our sessions table got that large without > this problem. We have >>very<< beefy hardware for our needs so I > would expect to be able to handle that number of sessions without > trouble. > > The site has been up for going on 3 years with no significant issues > and has had no code changes other than some minor template/html tweaks > in a couple months. > > ubuntu 8.10 > rails 2.1.0 && active_record_store > mysql 5.0.51 > > Any thoughts greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance! > Tim --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
