Just to be complete, even if this is not really an option for us: with
ONE_PASS_RENDER clustering with wicket would be fine, no further state
management issues, right?

Thanx && cheers,
Martin


On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 17:15 +0100, Martijn Dashorst wrote:
> Non-sticky would be rather bad for Wicket performance/programming model.
> 
> The default of wicket is to redirect after an event to a get request
> which renders a buffered response. The buffered response is only
> available on the jvm that handled the original request. If the
> buffered response is not available, it would require rendering all
> content again, requiring fetching all entities, etc. from the
> database.
> 
> Martijn
> 
> 
> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Martin Grotzke
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 13:07 +0100, Martijn Dashorst wrote:
> >> Starts to sound like a form of premature optimization. If you are new
> >> to Wicket, why do you want to implement a memcached session store?
> >> What is the usecase?
> > We're starting a new project (the relaunch of a big ecommerce system)
> > and want to be able to scale out (just throw in new hardware when
> > traffic grows). Additionally we have the requirement of session
> > failover, both in standard operations and for deployments.
> >
> > We're discussing non-sticky vs. sticky sessions here and for non-sticky
> > sessions memcached (as caching layer in addition to sessions stored in a
> > database) is a good candidate, as you don't replicate the changed
> > session to all other nodes, but only to the primary node for this
> > session id. This is an important aspect for beeing able to scale out.
> >
> > Concerning non-sticky/sticky/memcached/whatever we're not decided yet,
> > still running in evaluation mode :)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Martin
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Martijn
> >>
> >> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Martin Grotzke
> >> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 16:56 -0700, Victor Igumnov wrote:
> >> >> I wrote a memcached session manager store for jetty, that our wicket
> >> >> app utilizes. Works well, except I can't open source it,
> >> >> since it was created on the company's dime ;-(
> >> > Well, most interesting things are not so simple to realize that one can
> >> > do it in its spare time. But the good point is that we can do such
> >> > interesting things in our job :)
> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> Here is my opinion on memcached as a session store.
> >> >>
> >> >> Memcached will not work well as a wicket session store, due to 1mb
> >> >> size limits.
> >> > Good to know, I wasn't aware of this restriction (I still need to read
> >> > more about this for details). So one is forced to handle resources
> >> > eating much memory (e.g. fileupload) not via session, which is the case
> >> > even without this 1 mb  size limit :)
> >> >
> >> > Do you have a case where this limit is important especially for wicket?
> >> >
> >> >> You honestly don't want to serialize anything past 100kb
> >> >> in size due to performance reasons.
> >> > Right.
> >> >
> >> >> That said,  It works best if you
> >> >> use memcached as a container httpsessionstore with the wicket
> >> >> secondlevelcache diskpagestore. The only thing you need to serialize
> >> >> is the last pagemap which should only be 50kb in size max. You still
> >> >> get fail over since the last page map is distributed.
> >> > And I have to read about page maps (I'm really new to wicket as you
> >> > see :)). AFAIK page maps store a configurable numer of versioned pages
> >> > for back-button support and versioned pages.
> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> One thing you need to be careful with is not referencing anything that
> >> >> got stored on disk from your active pagemap, it will spiral into a
> >> >> stack overflow.
> >> >>
> >> >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WICKET-2138
> >> > Thanx! We would need to setup tests to be sure that this won't happen.
> >> >
> >> > Thanx for your input,
> >> > cheers,
> >> > Martin
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> -Victor
> >> >>
> >> >> On Mar 8, 2009, at 3:25 PM, Martijn Dashorst wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> > You can check the TIM integration work from the Terracotta guys. That
> >> >> > should make things easier, and you could even try it out, perhaps
> >> >> > saving a memcached implementation completely :)
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Martijn
> >> >> >
> >> >> > On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Martin Grotzke
> >> >> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> >> >> Hi,
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> we're just thinking about a session store using memcached. I just
> >> >> >> want
> >> >> >> to ask if somebody already implemented this (and wants to share)
> >> >> >> before
> >> >> >> we implement this.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Btw, is there some documentation about ISessionStore semantics, in
> >> >> >> addition to javadocs? I would be interested in the order in which the
> >> >> >> different methods would be invoked.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Thanx && cheers,
> >> >> >> Martin
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
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