On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 12:27 -0400, Scott Campbell wrote: > Dear PHP List, > > PHP 5, Apache2, MySQL 5, running on Ubuntu, viewing & deving with > FireFox and Konqueror (Linux). > > I am building a site with multiple tools and want to pass variables > throughout them all. Before, I was passing variables using <hidden> HTML > Form tags, but the site has grown too large for this tactic, so I went to > using $_SESSION. However, when I started using $_SESSION, my site loads 3-5 > times slower then before. A page that queried MySQL and built itself in 3-5 > seconds was now taking 15-20. While more has changed then just $_SESSION, > it is really the only significant difference. > > Is $_SESSION slowing down my site? Is there a faster alternative to > global variables then using $_SESSION? Are using regular cookies faster? > > Any help is appreciated. How are your sessions implemented? Are you using the stock PHP session functionality or did you cook your own solution? I can't see the stock PHP solution adding anything more than a split second to your page time. The exception being when it performs cleanup. Cleanup should be relegated to a cron job. Have you added anything new to the database? new query perhaps on a large table that doesn't make use of indexes? Small changes can have a bigger impact than large changes depending on what exactly changed. Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
