You should use the built-in connection pooling mechanism for this purpose. 
See 
http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/06/the-database-abstraction-layer#Connection-pooling.

Anthony

On Tuesday, April 21, 2015 at 11:05:32 AM UTC-4, Michel Krav wrote:
>
> Hi,
> my goal is to save time at each request processing.
>
> my context is a connection to an Oracle database with unfortunately poor 
> network response, so 
> in model.py , defining : 
> dbo =  DAL(uri , auto_import = False, migrate = False , lazy_tables = 
> False)
> on every request it cost time to connect.
>
> So, I decided to save the DAL object in a global variable.
> I prefered  doing
> current.dbo = dbo
> than 
> session.dbo = dbo 
> in the model file, as it's not user dependent.
>
> and finally store it in the application cache :
> current.dbo = cache.ram('dbo', lambda: dbo , time_expire=60*60)
>
> then I only define table in other model/file dedicated to controller in a 
> conditional model way.
>
> after test and debug it seems to work well (fell like saving time 
> connection) but is it web2py proofed ? 
>
>
>
>
>

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