Dear all,

I have a Quixote system using SCGI and Postgres under Apache/Linux. All
functioning fine with the one rather major problem, that being users'
requests are beginning to get muddled with each other: a user will end up
with data from a different user, a user's data 'disappears', etc. Is this a
problem with SCGI or quixote or Apache or because multiple sessions are being
started? This has only started happening recently, with an increase in the
number of users from 2 to 3 or 4, however, I would guess it is because I have
made an unwarranted assumption about session behaviour or about how SCGI
handles sessions.

I've seen this reported elsewhere (e.g.  02-Aug-2004 Jamie Hillman) but could
not find out what the response was nor how it was solved (my fault, not the
list's). One solution suggested seemed to be to make SCGI a singleton - would
that help, and if so am I right in assuming that I set max_children = 1
would do this? I notice (via grep) that this is set in both
quixote_handler.py and scgi_server.py : do I set this in both, neither or
either?

Session management is just using the standard Quixote stuff (to file as per
the demo.cgi). It is not necessary to preserve session details between
reboots. A value for the user's logon is checked for, and if not present, the
user is asked to logon. Thereafter, the user is tracked via the session+an
id.

All help gratefully received!
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Robert Ladyman
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