Re: Webgarden

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From: DrBytes (DrBytes_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/16/04 

Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 08:23:03 -0800

Thank for the answer John.
Too bad that I have to install stateserver just to share the Session.

Are there other ways around this? For instance, returning the Session to the
correct CPU during postbacks, etc?
This way I can have the bi CPU setup but not lose the session..

Thanks,

--yves

"John M Deal" wrote:

> There is two separate processes, two separate sessions, and two separate
> application objects. We learned this the hard way. If you want keep a
> single machine from having user experience anomalies do yourself a favor
> and at least setup StateServer on the same machine as the website.
> You'll take a hit for crossing the processes but by placing it on the
> same machine you won't have to take the hit of going to the network. The
> performance hit is not severe unless you are trying to serialize huge
> amounts of data. The biggest issue involved is usually related to
> rewriting any non-serializable objects so that they can be serialized
> across the process boundary (both SQLServer and StateServer require
> that). Sorry the news isn't better.
>
> Of course there is always the option of disabling webgardens for the
> website and running multiple machines to get the same performance boost,
> but then you have to deal with webfarm setup, sticky IP management,
> and/or the same session management issues.
>
> Have A Better One!
>
> John M Deal, MCP
> Necessity Software
>
> DrBytes wrote:
> > Hello, I have a question about webgardens.
> > As I understand it, a webgarden is physically one box with multiple
> > processors in it.
> > In the MSDN documentation about webgardens they mention :
> > "If webGarden is set to true, by default, all CPUs are enabled and ASP.NET
> > starts one process for each CPU"
> >
> > Ok.. So this means that when I have a box with 2 processors it will actually
> > create a worker process for every CPU.
> > Does this mean that this box will have 2 sessions to manage?
> >
> > I know there is MSSQL and StateServer to store session in 1 place and share
> > them accross CPU's but I would rather use the InProc equivalent on this box,
> > just to make sure that there is only one session created that spans the 2
> > CPUs.
> > Does anybody know how to accomplish this not using SQLServer or Stateserver?
> >
> > thanks in advance,
> > --yves
>

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