Re: [PHPLIB] Re: [PHP3] persistent data From: Gary Bickford (garyb <email protected>)
Date: 03/29/00

I thought about this a little bit. I think one could fake the regsitration process
by making a loop around the database insertion code, generating random or
sequential usernames.

nicholas klem wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Sascha Schumann wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 07:13:23PM +0200, nicholas klem wrote:
> > > On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> > > > > Yes, but how is this persistence implemented? Is there a
> > > > > mechanism for preserving these variables in server memory?
> > > >
> > > > Not in server memory. While server side session management
> > > > would be awesome, I don't know how feasible that would be.
> > > > As of right now, the only way I know of to keep persistant data
> > > > is through the use of client side cookies.
> > >
> > > I'm experimenting with phplib, and I strongly suspect that it is possible to
> > > configure the class sessions to store itself and children in some kind of
> > > shared machine-memory. The example configuration file comes like this:
> > >
> > > #class Example_CT_Shm extends CT_Shm {
> > > # var $max_sessions = 500; ## number of maximum sessions
> > > # var $shm_key = 0x123754; ## unique shm identifier
> > > # var $shm_size = 64000; ## size of segment
> > > #}
> >
> > As the author of ct_shm I strongly discourage people from running it
> > on production servers. The way shared memory is handled by the shared
> > memory module is far from being efficient. For example, if you store
> > 1000 variables and delete the first one, the module will copy 999 variables
> > including the variable data to avoid memory fragmentation.
> >
> Thanks! A good thing to know. Maybe we could balance the load between mysql and
> CT_Shm and see which breaks first? Anyone know of good ways to stress-test mysql
> and/or php? Could be fun. ;-)
>
> nicholas
> nklem <email protected>
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