Configuration assistant - Guess what is the best way to store session

Feature Suggestions
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Dear team,

First of all, thank you vey much to provide an powerfull alternative to google analytics.

We’ve been using Piwik since decembre 2009 and I thought I missed something in configuration and have been searching for hours.

While I was going to request for help on the forum, I ended to that faq : Installation - Analytics Platform - Matomo
It just brang everithing back to normal ! Thanks !

But I was sure I had it wrong from the beginning and nearly switched to OWA …

Do you think you can launch a test to help user to understand why his piwik is so slow or even not loading ? Giving a few hints on where to search ?
Or giving advices like “you have more than XXX thousands records and are using Mysql, please consider doing …”.

Do you think it may be usefull for the community ?

Thanks anyway,

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Thanks for reporting the bug. I think it is a critical issue indeed. I created a ticket: Work around some hosts requiring session_save_handler = dbtable or piwik crashes · Issue #3234 · matomo-org/matomo · GitHub
there is also: OVH Web Host compatibility: detect when file sessions are too slow and use db sessions instead · Issue #2997 · matomo-org/matomo · GitHub

the problem is I’m not sure how to solve the issue properly – can we detect when the session files are too slow and swtich to DB sessions?

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Would it be possible to make a test page that launch a few session expensive requests with each session store configuration and guess with the time spent ?

When a few timeout request happend, the user may see a info box : “It’s looks like you have performance issues, please go to -that page- to make a few automated tests to help you solve it.”

As I’m not a full time administrator, I assume many other issues may be tested like DB weight, number of records, php memory limit, access rights, etc.