asp sessions Question

[bddosch]

I am using the session object to store variables to use through my site, for example:

Dim strName, strDate, strEmail
strName = Session("Ben")
strDate = Session("19 Jan 2004")
strEmail = Session("ben@yahoo.com")

My questions are:


How much does this slow the server down?
What is the limit to how many of these I can use?

Thanks

[CardboardHammer]

Here's some MSDN links to info which should be of interest to you:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnasp/html/aspwsm.asp

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnasp/html/asptips.asp

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnsqlmag2k/html/session.asp

[bddosch]

Thanks you, it has helped me allot.

[Bullschmidt]

Assuming 10 session variables for each of 100 simultaneous users at 100 bytes per session variable only adds up to 100,000 bytes (i.e. 100 KB).

And a server might easily have over 128 MB of RAM.

So in my opinion perhaps people don't need to be QUITE so afraid to use some session variables especially for sites that are never expected to have high traffic.

[bddosch]

Thanks Bull

That does help and I think that ity does make sence.

Thanks

dosch

[PeOfEo]

Originally posted by Bullschmidt
Assuming 10 session variables for each of 100 simultaneous users at 100 bytes per session variable only adds up to 100,000 bytes (i.e. 100 KB).

And a server might easily have over 128 MB of RAM.

So in my opinion perhaps people don't need to be QUITE so afraid to use some session variables especially for sites that are never expected to have high traffic. Might be so, so the server will not crash. But assume you are not the only one on the server. Session variables do put extra strain on the server and is not considerate to others if you are lagging it up, And vice versa.
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