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Nao

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What's the purpose of non-database sessions?
« on February 3rd, 2014, 07:10 PM »
I think I've got the hang of manipulating sessions in database fields (I had to do that in order to implement session-based caching :P), but now I'm playing with non-database sessions, and having problems, namely my sessions are automatically regenerated every X seconds, making it impossible for me to connect to my test admin area, lol.

I was getting started on fixing this, when suddenly it hit me... What's the point?! If this bug wasn't found before, maybe that's because no one ever uses file-based sessions.

I'm tempted to just remove the feature, which will make one line less to read at install time. What do you think, guys..?

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Re: What's the purpose of non-database sessions?
« Reply #1, on February 3rd, 2014, 07:21 PM »
I'm using file based sessions and I'm very happy with it.
If you've got a big board, db sessions are a real bottleneck for performance if you stuck on MyISAM tables :)
And it's ways faster....

Re: What's the purpose of non-database sessions?
« Reply #2, on February 3rd, 2014, 07:24 PM »
Quote from Nao on February 3rd, 2014, 07:10 PM
I was getting started on fixing this, when suddenly it hit me... What's the point?! If this bug wasn't found before, maybe that's because no one ever uses file-based sessions.
Never happend to me.
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I'm tempted to just remove the feature, which will make one line less to read at install time. What do you think, guys..?
NO!
# dpkg-reconfigure brain
error: brain is not installed or configured

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Re: What's the purpose of non-database sessions?
« Reply #8, on February 4th, 2014, 09:40 AM »
Oh, forgot to update on my case...

It actually worked again after I restarted Apache. (I forgot to do that.)
Was probably an issue with tmp permissions, then. It was read-only. I'm not sure why it managed to create session files but still bothered me with problems, but anyway... Solved.

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