Code to store PHP sessions within memcached.

[Kevin Burton]

On 11/17/06, Reinis Rozitis <roze at roze.lv> wrote:
>
> Hmm why dont you just use the nice feature of php to have your own session
> handling functions override the default which could be transparent to the
> rest of the code?
> We use something like this:


Because I'm not a PHP god and we only have 3 .php files which need session
support :)

Tested on 30k concurent users/sessions online with 7 switching (roundrobin)
> www nodes and it works just fine..
> The conclusion we got its best to keep some seperate Memcached instance
> just
> for the sessions that way you dont mix it with other type of data caches
> and
> because of LRU push the needed items out.


Totally... you should absolutely use a separate MC instance.

Kevin

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