Re: [Pagekit-users] disabling use of session?

[Boris Z. <bo...@2b...>]

Hi Shimon,

Am Donnerstag, 16. Dezember 2004 22:41 schrieb sh...@ru...:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know of a way to disable instantiation of the
> (Apache::SessionX) session object for each pagekit request?  I have an
> application that does not use session at all, but each page request incurs
> the performance hit of instantiating one of these and loading data off disk
> or off DB.

The session's are a tricky thing. But are you really sure that you did not use 
sessions at all?

Off Hand, PageKit does not create a session unless you use the session. If you 
are logged in, the user  must have a session, since at least the 
last_activity_time is stored in the session.

>
> Perhaps a better solution would be "lazy" instantiation of SessionX - only
> instantiate it on the first call to $model->session.  That way, if any
> request does not require access to the session, it will not incur the
> startup cost, without the programmer having to actually think about this.
>
> (Instantiating a session can be slow because it means loading data from
> disk or DB.)
>
> So in short:
>
> - Can I manually disable instantiation of session if I don't use it?  (Or
> is pagekit using it internally for some reason?)
>

> - Could PageKit be made a little smarter in order to eliminate my reason
> for considering that option?
>

try 

sub pkit_session_setup {
  {}
}

in Common.pm to trash the session. This might give lots of warnings, but 
perhaps it works. Please let me know.


> thanks,
> shimon.


-- 
Boris