On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 14:10 -0500, Dan Axtell wrote: > I've been using Apache::Session::MySQL for a while, but I've been trying to > lower the amount of database I/O in some applications that experience spikes > in server traffic. So I came up with the idea of using Apache::Session::File > with the files on /dev/shm, with a cron job to clear up old or expired > sessions. Preliminary benchmarks found this to be about 7-8 times faster > than MySQL.
Sure, it's local. Using BerkeleyDB would also be faster than MySQL. The downside of your approach is that it can't scale across a cluster of machines, and has no on-disk backup. If you only have one machine, it's probably fine. - Perrin
