There's not a lot of overhead, though if you have an unusually busy system (in the tens of thousands of simultaneous users), you could catch a performance/memory hit.
>From what I remember reading, Java will almost always assign a session to any incoming browser, so there's a chance it's doing it anyway and turning on session variables will just allow you to access the already created scope. With no session variables that you put in, the user will get a couple anyway. CFID, CFTOKEN and maybe a jSessionID (if enabled). This is like 200 bytes at most, per user, so you're really not going to see much happening there. Again, with tens of thousands of users, your memory usage may go up like 10-50 MB. Not a big hit. If you're using client variables now instead of sessions, you need to switch. Client variables don't work very well and cause more stress than sessions. If you're worrying about overhead and performance, your Client variables are much more of a problem than session variables will be. -- nathan strutz http://www.dopefly.com/ On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Brian Dumbledore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was wondering what is the overhead if I jsut turn session management on, > but do not use/set any session variables. Would it effect much in terms > server performance in general? > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:302617 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
