RE: [Webware-discuss] Anybody made a memcached SessionStore?

[Hancock, David (DHANCOCK)]

Title: Message

We aren't clustered (currently), but soon I want to run the ThreadedAppServer on multiple machines again. We backed away from this a while ago for other reasons, but at the time we used the session FileStore with an NFS-mounted directory. We tried sticky sessions in our load-balancer (Cisco LocalDirector) but we never got them to work reliably.   Our applications (WebKit included) are already quite database-intensive, so I'd rather try something like memcached before doing an additional update on each page switch. The memcached daemons in a few places on the network seems ideal, and my (simple-minded) benchmarks comparing Oracle retrievals vs memcached retrievals shows them to be 10-12 times faster.   Before implementing our earlier load-balanced configuration, we benchmarked the difference between FileStore and MemoryStore. It was only about a 15% penalty for the FileStore. That testing was with a local filesystem, not NFS. FileStore can introduce some hard-to-find bugs when two windows of the same session attempt to update the session file at the same time.   I haven't got any numbers comparing MemoryStore (or DynamicStore) with memcached storage, but I would expect MemoryStore to perform a few percent better (data is already in the process, no need for possible network traffic).   I'm still hoping to hear of an existing implementation, though... Cheers! -- David Hancock | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 410-266-4384 -----Original Message----- From: Ben Parker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 6:22 PM To: Hancock, David (DHANCOCK) Cc: webware-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Webware-discuss] Anybody made a memcached SessionStore? Hancock, David (DHANCOCK) wrote: We're thinking about creating a memcached SessionStore backend, but (being quite lazy and not as smart as most other people) I'd much rather copy or adapt somebody else's code. Has anyone done this already? Any advice before I start in on this project? Interesting - are you looking to use this in a clustered environment?  I wonder if memcached would give any performance benefit over SessionMemoryStore for a single server. Fairly soon, I will have to implement clustered app server machines for load-balancing and failover, and I'm looking at using a database session store to achieve session management across multiple machines without requiring sticky sessions. although I'm still just beginning to get the test environment together. peace! Ben