[mod_python] session data and shared memory

thanos vassilakis thanos at 0x01.com
Mon Jan 13 20:06:38 EST 2003


You should check out:
How-To: Easy mod_python Session Handling with pso.session
http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=10174&group_id=49265

We are using pso at the NYSE with success.

thanos


On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 11:07  PM, Conrad Steenberg wrote:

> Hi Lex
>
> You can also take a look at using Berkeley DB, which carries a lot less
> overhead than traditional DBs, and stores key value pairs (it looks 
> like
> a dictionary). It is very fast, persistent, and scales to TBs in size.
> Which you hopefully don't need ;-)
>
> The Python binding is at pybsddb.sf.net. I use it for an XML-RPC app
> server at clarens.sf.net.
>
> Cheers
>
> Conrad
>
> On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 17:35, Lex Berezhny wrote:
>> hello,
>>
>> I know the issue of session management has been brought up before, 
>> but I
>> have a more specific question on the topic. Is there a way to keep
>> session state across threads/forked apache processes?
>>
>> Storing the session state in a database carries a lot of overhead 
>> since
>> every request requires at least one query.
>>
>> Another solution I had in mind was to use the ZODB with ZEO, so that
>> when a user logs in for example a session object will be created in 
>> the
>> ZODB. But this seems like a great deal of hoops just to store a few
>> attributes of session.
>>
>> I have also thought about implementing a very basic LDAP like session
>> registry service. Each mod_python process would open a connection to
>> this registry and be able to share session data with other processes.
>>
>> Has anyone else faced such a problem? Are there any other ways to
>> synchronize data between mod_python instances?
>>
>> thanks in advance,
>>
>>  - lex
> -- 
> Conrad Steenberg <conrad at hep.caltech.edu>
>
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