Re: [Webware-discuss] Session cleaning

[Chuck E. <ec...@mi...>]

At 02:57 AM 2/24/2001 -0500, Terrel Shumway wrote:
>Jay Love wrote:
>
> > I knew there was a reason we didn't use this technique.  The timeout
> > value for each session can be set individually.  So we have to get at
> > the session data to find out if it's timeout has been exceeded.
> >
>
>Yeah, I just figured that out myself.  That alone is a good motivation to use
>a SQL database as the backing store: the sweep is one query
>     DELETE FROM sessions WHERE atime+max_inactive < NOW()
>
>But that will not work in some very cheap hosting environments.

I don't know what "very cheap" is, but for no more than $28/month you can 
get full CGI, telnet and MySQL at pair.com (last time I reviewed my statement).

Of course, the key now is to find a place where you can run mod_webkit 
without paying $200/month for a dedicated box.


BTW We have a SessionMemoryStore and a SessionFileStore. I kind of figured 
that at some point someone would create a SessionSQLStore, but it hasn't 
happened yet. (hint, hint)

:-)


-Chuck