We are running our website on 3 W2K servers using classic ASP and IIS 5.0.
Because the servers are load balanced we don't use the ASP Session object
instead we store session type information to the database. Since we don't
use them, we do not enable Sessions in IIS
We recently purchased a 3rd party application that stores some security
information into the Session object. Since the the package is storing and
retrieving from the session in the same request, I don't believe that I have
to worry about the session information being lost if all of a user's requests
are not to the same server. I have tried changing the code to use the
database session that we have and haven't had much luck getting it to work.
So, I am considering just enabling sessions and setting the session timeout
to one minute.
Here's my question? What kind of impact will enabling sessions have on
performance? I'm sure that additional memory will be used but is there any
way to estimate how much. I'm also sure it will slow things down a little,
but am I talking 1 millisecond per request or something bigger.
Any guidance will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Evan Nelson