[rt-users] Using Oracle DB for Apache::Session data

[Schultz, Eric]

I've been trying to figure out why my production instance of RT running
on Oracle is slower than my Dev instance on MySQL.  I saw something on
the mailing list that I thought could offer some help - someone
mentioned cleaning out the sessions table.  Okay, I'll take a look at
that, I thought.  But then I was surprised to find the table empty!
Instead, the session information is being written to disk at
/path-to-rt/var/session_data/.  Ah-ha!  I found that the file
Elements/SetupSessionCookie had this line:

#    Oracle      => 'Apache::Session::Oracle',

And of course, it's commented out, when the mysql and Pg lines were not.
So I uncommented this, restarted apache; the home page loaded about 20%
faster, and a row showed up in the Oracle database (dev now pointing to
a QA Oracle backend rather than MySQL for this test).  Sweet!  But then
I clicked on the logout button, and the page just hangs.  Anyone have
any thoughts?  I'm poking around at it now.

Eric Schultz

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