Long polling locking up other AJAX calls

Question

I\'m looking to do long polling to \"push\" some data down to the client and I\'m also making other unrelated AJAX calls to the server in parallel with the long polling. It

Answer 1

This happens because of session file locks. In CakePHP you can choose other options for session management. You can save sessions in database, in cache etc. So you don't wait for file lock issues.

The built-in configurations are:

php - Saves sessions with the standard settings in your php.ini file.

cake - Saves sessions as files inside app/tmp/sessions. This is a good option when on hosts that don’t allow you to write outside your own home dir.

database - Use the built-in database sessions.

cache - Use the built-in cache sessions.

http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/development/sessions.html#built-in-session-handlers-configuration

Of course you can make session_write_close(), but you should be sure that no changes needed in session between two page loads.

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