[Zope] RAM session management

[Pavlos Christoforou]

On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Evan Simpson wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Hung Jung Lu <hungjunglu@hotmail.com>
> > I am thinking in implementing RAM session management.
> > The picture I have is:
> >
> > (1) Implementing a mini TCP/IP server at a port in
> >     an internal server machine. Most likely I'll
> >     use Python.
> >
> > (2) The web server then talks to the session server
> >     via TCP/IP.
> >
> > Does this scheme seem OK? (Security, performance,
> > scalabilty, etc.)

You could also consider metakit, which is now open source. It would be
nice to wrap it in Zope and I believe has an option of creating views in
memory with no associate disk storage. I *really* want to find some time
to wrap metakit in Zope but it won't happen for a while.

Alternatively you can save the data in a dict object attached to some
persistent object. If you access that dict object through its methods then
nothing is going to be registered with the transaction manager, but as
that object is going to be referenced frequently then it will stay in
memory. This is essentially how FSSession works, but the in memory part
lasts only for the period of a transaction.


Pavlos