Saving shibd session state during restarts

[Jacob Lundberg]

On Wed, 2014-06-11 at 17:21 -0400, Lenny Miceli wrote:
> I just looked at the NativeSPStorageService wiki page and do see a 
> mention of memcache.  Do you or anyone know if this is considered "beta"

Careful; the SP implementation of memcache storage assumes cache
availability but memcache isn't designed to provide it (or durability
for that matter).  If any of your memcached servers is off-line, some
portion of your users will not be able to authenticate...  See this
thread:

http://shibboleth.1660669.n2.nabble.com/SP-memcache-plugin-problem-td7596187.html

-Jacob

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