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Don't use Pstore as a session container

Posted 04 Nov 2005

You really shouldn’t be using Pstore for Rails. Apart from the fact that it doesn’t scale to a setup with more than 1 box, it is much slower than using the database for session storage, for example.

Using a Mysql session store can be up to 90% faster. Under, Linux, that is.

If you’re on a Windows box, the difference can be staggering: up to 560%!

Posted in performance | Tags sessions

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