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 |
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Write frequency | Minimize database write operations. | Database |
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 |
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 |
Tablespace and row size | Increase efficiency of write operations to database. | Database (DB2® only) |