Commit 21853c1b authored by Tim Graham's avatar Tim Graham
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[1.6.x] Fixed #23023 -- Added warning against local-memory cache. 

Thanks django at kerz.id.au.

Backport of 7d0519c7 from master
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docs/topics/http/sessions.txt

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@@ -64,7 +64,9 @@ sure you've configured your cache; see the :doc:`cache documentation 
    cache backend. The local-memory cache backend doesn't retain data long

    enough to be a good choice, and it'll be faster to use file or database

    sessions directly instead of sending everything through the file or

    database cache backends.

    database cache backends. Additionally, the local-memory cache backend is

    NOT multi-process safe, therefore probably not a good choice for production

    environments.



If you have multiple caches defined in :setting:`CACHES`, Django will use the

default cache. To use another cache, set :setting:`SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS` to the