Re: [distcache-users] distcache for apache

[Geoff T. <ge...@ge...>]

On October 21, 2004 09:26 pm, Cere M. Davis wrote:
> Hi again Geoff,
>
> Ok, I just wanted to let you know that I used the SSLSessionCache dbm:
> stanza and it seems to work fine without the apache distcache patch. 

Of course, it's the built in dbm-based session cache. This is low 
performance and single-server, but if that is all you need, great.

> Can you confirm that this is possible?  Apache does not seems to
> complain or have a problem with this.

Nor should it, that cache mode has been included in the source for ages. 
There is also a shared-memory cache (shmcb) included that is, like dbm, 
limited to the one web-server - however shmcb performs better and has 
smarter cache semantics than dbm.

You would want distcache if you need multiple web server machines to share 
the same session cache. And for that, you'd need to patch the distcache 
support into apache unless you're using a pre-release snapshot of apache 
2.1. If you don't need distcache (dist=distributed, hence the issue of 
multiple web-servers), then this is a non-issue.

Cheers,
Geoff

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