We're using clustered sessions too. However, we decided to kick out
PHP's session handler altogether and just use our own Session object.
It's really not that much more complicated. The session cookie handling
is quite straightforward.<br>
<br>
I completely agree with your point regarding the load balancer. It's
nice to be able to connect to any node and still be logged in with the
same session. This moves the complexity away from possibly expensive
load balancers.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Serhat<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/16/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Kevin Burton</b> <<a href="mailto:burton@tailrank.com">burton@tailrank.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
We (Tailrank) are using memcached to store PHP sessions. I can publish
the code if anyone's interested. We basically save/restore
$_SESSION within memcached.<br><br>We over provision our memcached nodes so the LRU GC doesn't kick in.
<br><br>It works really well. This also means that our load
balancer can be stupid as hell and doesn't need to worry about what
HTTP server to send a user since any machine has access to the session
anywhere with the cluster.
<div><span class="e" id="q_10eeef501262f50a_1"><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/12/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">howard chen</b> <<a href="mailto:howachen@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
howachen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Anyone used memcached to store sessions?<br><br>Are there any special thing need to take care of? e.g. session expire?<br><br>Thanks.<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br></span></div><span class="sg">-- <br>Founder/CEO
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