Tuning session management

WebSphere Application Server session support has features for tuning session performance and operating characteristics, particularly when sessions are configured in a distributed environment. These options support the administrator flexibility in determining the performance and failover characteristics for their environment.

The table summarizes the features, including whether they apply to sessions tracked in memory, in a database, with memory-to-memory replication, or all. Click a feature for details about the feature. Some features are easily manipulated using administrative settings; others require code or database changes.

Feature or option	Goal	Applies to sessions in memory, database, or memory-to-memory
Write frequency	Minimize database write operations.	Database and Memory-to-Memory
Session affinity	Access the session in the same application server instance.	All
Multirow schema	Fully utilize database capacities.	Database
Base in-memory session pool size	Fully utilize system capacity without overburdening system.	All
Write contents	Allow flexibility in determining what session data to write	Database and Memory-to-Memory
Scheduled invalidation	Minimize contention between session requests and invalidation of sessions by the Session Management facility. Minimize write operations to database for updates to last access time only.	Database and Memory-to-Memory
Tablespace and row size	Increase efficiency of write operations to database.	Database (DB2 only)

 

See also

Configuring scheduled invalidation
Configuring write contents
Configuring write frequency
Base in-memory session pool size
Controlling write operations
Tuning parameter settings
Tuning parameter custom settings

 

See Also

Sessions

 

Related Tasks

Task overview: Managing HTTP sessions
Tuning the application serving environment

 

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