Re: [Phpgroupware-users] Howto optimize phpgw for speed

[Dan Kuykendall]

Chris Weiss wrote:
> I don't think there is a hard limit on the sessions, but just imaging trying to
> stuff my 200meg archive folder in there, sounds like trouble waiting to happen.

Yes, this is a good point. The thing that sucks is that certain apps 
(possibly only email) ends up having its own crazy caching scheme.

I wish we could just find an IMAP server that used a SQL database 
instead of Mailbox or Maildir. Then we could read it dirtectly and end 
up with decent performance.

> Dan Kuykendall (address@hidden) wrote*:
>
> > This is a good point, but your not completely correct either. It simply
> > takes the use of a share file location for the sessions files. So if you
> > use nfs or whatever and in the php.ini dictate that the sesion files be
> > kept on the share, then you can do load balancing just fine.
> >
> > If people still feel that db sessions have some benefit, then I wont
> > fight to remove it. It doesnt matter to me that much.
> in that case, the only benifit left is sessions tracking, which is a lot harder 
> to
> do with php4 sessions.

Yes, and this is a very valid issue.