Enable J2EE sessions and take a look at this https://sec1.woopra.com/docs/cluster-howto.html
Thanks Alex On 2 January 2012 13:18, Ivo Verbeek <[email protected]> wrote: > > OK, so is this a WAR installation that you just dropped onto Tomcat? Just > > want to be totally sure I'm using the same setup. > > Yes, exactly. > > > I'll set up a test just to see if I experience the same thing and if so > > we'll hand it off to Alan and Andy for verification and a fix if > necessary. > > I don't know exactly how this works "under the hood", but it sounds > almost like a seperate process which every X minutes take care of > cleaning the timed-out sessions. And a missing check if a session is > used again to see if it hasn't already timed out. > > > Appreciate the thorough information--we'll get to the bottom of it! > > Well, I remembered a very good presentation from Ben Nadel on the > "power" of just Application.cfc. Also I remembered several cases with > big problems around sessions/cookies (only recently, with the session > fixation "fix" in CF9.0.1 hotfix2) and that is why I was playing > around with this. > > Which leaves the "client variables". Personally I like to use them > because I don't like the session-to-server binding in a load-balanced > environment. So if apps need to scale, I prefer to make them > sessionless. I understand the limitations of client variables over > sessions (only basic structures), but the session-in-database aspect I > like. But please tell me your opinion why to avoid using clients and > how do we solve that on load-balanced environments? > > What also comes out of this "testing" is that I now understand the > setclientcookies better. If I am not mistaken, I could disable > sessions and clients and still have > > <cfset this.setclientcookies = "Yes"> > > ... assign unique CFID&CFTOKEN cookies for visitors. Maybe build > alternative client management with that? > > Thanks again for looking into this. > > Ivo > > -- > online documentation: http://openbd.org/manual/ > google+ hints/tips: https://plus.google.com/115990347459711259462 > http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en > > Join us @ http://www.OpenCFsummit.org/ Dallas, Feb 2012 > -- Alex Skinner Managing Director Pixl8 Interactive Tel: +448452600726 Email: [email protected] Web: pixl8.co.uk -- online documentation: http://openbd.org/manual/ google+ hints/tips: https://plus.google.com/115990347459711259462 http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en Join us @ http://www.OpenCFsummit.org/ Dallas, Feb 2012
