Session management tuning
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.
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 the last access time updates in the database. Database and Memory-to-Memory Tablespace and row size Increase efficiency of write operations to database. Database (DB2 only)
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Scheduled invalidation Sessions Base in-memory session pool size Write operations Configure write contents Configure write frequency Task overview: Managing HTTP sessions Tune the application serving environment Tune parameter settings Tune parameter custom settings