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<refentrytitle>session_shared</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>3mp</manvolnum>
<refnamediv>
<refname>session_shared</refname>
- <refpurpose>Module for sharing result-sets etc. between threads</refpurpose>
+ <refpurpose> Metaproxy Module for sharing system ressorces between
+ threads</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsect1><title>DESCRIPTION</title>
<para>
- This module allows many Z39.50 frontend sessions to share
- a number of backend sessions. The purpose is this filter is to:
+ This filter implements global sharing of
+ result sets (i.e. between threads and therefore between
+ clients), yielding performance improvements especially when
+ incoming requests are from a stateless environment such as a
+ web-server, in which the client process representing a session
+ might be any one of many.
+ It performs the following actions:
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<listitem>
<para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Reduce number of Initializations with backend servers.
+ Reduce the number of initializations with backend servers.
</para>
</listitem>
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