Re: $Session object

2004-02-04 Thread Chris Marschall
Gentlemen, Thanks for the prompt feedback. Of course, the lack of shared memory (multi-threading) explains why it would have to commit all state information for each request. Thanks also for the DB_File information. Much appreciated. Regards, Chris. On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Josh Chamas wrote: >

Re: $Session object

2004-02-04 Thread Josh Chamas
Helmut Zeilinger wrote: Hi Chris, the reason for the data size limit is, that the SDBM hash size limit is 1024 bytes for the key + the value. You can store more data if you use DB_File or MLDBM::Sync::SDBM_File for storing the data. But see "man Apache::ASP", Section "State Management" (StateDB).

RE: $Session object

2004-02-04 Thread Helmut Zeilinger
Hi Chris, the reason for the data size limit is, that the SDBM hash size limit is 1024 bytes for the key + the value. You can store more data if you use DB_File or MLDBM::Sync::SDBM_File for storing the data. But see "man Apache::ASP", Section "State Management" (StateDB). Regards Helmut I seem

RE: $Session object

2004-02-04 Thread Chris Marschall
Hello all, I seem to remember reading in this group, that you shouldn't stuff too much data in $Session. Why is this the case? Is is simply performance, and if so how much data can I store in here reasonably. The reason that I ask is this: I tend to develop using OO, and was wondering if there

Re: $Session object

2002-02-28 Thread Joshua Chamas
Peter Beardsley wrote: > > I'm trying to learn how to use the $Session object to maintain session > state and I'm running into a few problems. I want to use it to store a > reference to a complex data structure(It's an arrayref of hashrefs... yes I > read the docs on this and I'm using it read-o