Re: [SM-USERS] storing sessions

[Fernando G. <fg...@cs...>]

Jason Lewis wrote:
>>In your way you balance users.
>>In my way I balance web access.
>>A user => several web access.
>>So my balance is more grained.
>>And overall system performance is improved.
>>
>>
>>It's only my theory.
>>
>>Fernando.
> 
> 
> But your way requires NFS, which will utimately reduce performance.  Temp
> files should be on local disks.  Been there done that.
> 
> I am not convinced your way is better.  The alteon will decide which
> servers are overloaded and pass requests to servers that have less load. 
> Since you are using sessions, you want to keep each user on the same box
> until they log off.

I have to read more carefully alteon docs; how and when the alteon decides if a server is 
loaded.

> I spent a lot of time working on a similar situation.  Session files were
> on NFS and webservers were stepping on each others toes and session files
> were not being removed.  Not to mention with a heavy load, the NFS was
> slowing things down.  File locking, rights and other issues don't come
> into play in /tmp.

These are the kind of problems I need to know before the systems go operational.

Thanks.
Fernando.