Session vars chew up a ton of memory? I would have to disagree with this, at this statement could put a negative view of session vars for new CF developers. Session variables use no more memory than any other variable available to you on the ColdFusion server. And in this day and age where web servers typically have a gigabyte or more of ram, even if each guest to your site is carrying 25k of session variables (and mind you, this is ALOT OF DATA) your server will be just fine on memory, up to 4,000,000 concurrent users. This is not likely at all, and since ColdFusion very thoughtfully cleans the session variables out for you at a pre-determined expiration time. I would estimate a 5 page form (w/ 5 fields on each page) to average about 6k of memory, assuming there are no "free-for-all" fields. I'm all for using hidden form variables, but if you've paid $4500 for this application server, why not use it for what it was built? They didn't add "state-management" into ColdFusion as an afterthought! </cf_endrant> Jason. -----Original Message----- From: Tariq Ahmed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 4:06 PM To: CF Forum Subject: Re: Surveys > 10 questins on each page. I want to save all the answers so by the last > page (when I collected allthe answers)I can update the database. What is > the best way to save the form variables (application, session variables). I > appreciate your help. Well Application variables are global. Session vars chew up a ton of memory, when you're really not interested in the users long term persistence. I would says just use form vars, and with each page store the previous pages stuff hidden. This is of course assuming a high traffic site. If it's just for a few people here and there, then the convenience of sessions vars may override memory concerns. Tariq Ahmed - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ICQ 6308515 TIBCO Finance Technology - Web Group - Senior Web Engineer Work: 650-461-3472 Pager: 800-759-8888x1702632 Fax: 650-461-3003 3375 Hillview Avenue. Palo Alto, CA. 94304. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
