Today I gave a presentation on “Read/Write Splitting with PHP” for Percona Webinars. If you missed it, you can still register…: It depends how you store $_SESSION. I have audited sites that stored $_SESSION in the MySQL database for persistence, but when we measured… the session table. For best scalability, I’d recommend storing $_SESSION in an in-memory data store such as Memcached or APC. Store in $_SESSION…
Post: Percona sessions at the MySQL conference
…Enhancements to MySQL and InnoDB Fernando Ipar: PHP Object-Relational Mapping Libraries In Action Baron…and Operating Systems for MySQL Peter Zaitsev: Instrumenting your Application for MySQL and Memcached Peter Zaitsev: …also want to attend the Maatkit BoF session. We look forward to seeing you there…
Post: Worse than DDOS
…. If you’re using PHP functions make sure default_socket_timeout has proper value or set it per session. Set Curl Timeouts… stages and just setting timeout is not enough. Beware of PHP sessions “files” handler I already wrote about this topic, but when… we’re looking for. Things are much easier with say memcached session storage – this does not cause any locks for parallel session use so only…
Comment: Beyond great cache hit ratio
Jonathan, use repcached patch for memcached – it is stable solution that we used to share php session state over cluster (php stores session via memcache handler)

