Enterprise Services (.NET 1.1) Performance Guidelines - State Management

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- J.D. Meier, Srinath Vasireddy, Ashish Babbar, and Alex Mackman


Prefer stateless objects.

Ideally, you should avoid holding state to maximize scalability. If state is needed, store and retrieve the state information from a common store like a database.


Avoid using the Shared Property Manager (SPM).

The SPM is designed for storing small pieces of information (simple strings, integers) and not complex or large amounts of data. It uses ReaderWriterlock to synchronize single-write and multiple-reads; therefore, storing large amounts of data can cause throughput bottlenecks and high CPU. Using this feature causes server affinity, so you cannot use it in applications that will be deployed in a Web farm or application cluster. Even for single machine scenarios, do not use it as a cache or as a placeholder for complex data.