Re: Discuss Digest, Vol 19, Issue 20

["markw-4" <user=5@nabble.blu.org>]

 Would you be interested in trying a PHP extension that implements locking 
file system storage, caching, as well as some other interesting features? 

Like I said, I've been trying to get this extension to get some traction 
for some years, and I think I need some real live tests with it. The 
extension used to be in the PHP main distribution. It has since been 
improved and renamed. 

I use this system on my web site, and I have used it in the past for 
customers when I did consulting gigs. 


> Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 17:46:11 -0400 
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> Subject: Re: PHP web clusters and session information 
> To: L-blu <[hidden email]> 
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> we have three front end web servers that serve millions of pages a month 
> via apache2/php5, and 
> use an NFS server to hold all session information. We had to do this as 
> the 
> front end servers are behind an SNMP balanced bigIP loadbalancer. we did 
> some tests 
> first and for us it proved faster to get the flat files from NFS than to 
> get the 
> session data from a shared DB (though I must add that the NFS mounted 
> server is 
> ALSO the DB server, so it was actually a good test). 
> 
> Richard