> Storing PHP sessions on Gluster FS really isn't a good option, because > session file is locked while scripts access it. You will definetly hit > a performance issue. My advice is to setup a memcached server and use > memcache (or memcached) PHP module's ability to store session data in > memcache server. It has the capability to provide a fault-tolerant > service if you setup a few memcached servers. And it's lightning fast. Interesting. I had actually used memcache sessions before but the app doesn't work with them so I had to fall back to file-based sessions. Why does locking cause such problems? It works quite well on NFS. John -- John Madden Sr UNIX Systems Engineer Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana jmadden at ivytech.edu
