HTTP ?

Perrin Harkins perrin at elem.com
Mon Nov 29 20:22:53 PST 2004


On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 17:17 -0800, christopher at baus.net wrote:
> >
> > you might be better off using libhttpd or libwebserver (or whatever) and
> >   having memcached just reading HTTP requests, instead of adding a
> > apache-module to proxy requests through to it.
> 
> To me it just sounds like you are going to end up reimplementing something
> like squid.

I agree.  The most interesting feature of memcached is the fancy non-
blocking I/O that allows it to scale well.  HTTP would have to be
implemented to work in the same aysnchronous way to make it worth doing.

This feature request seems to be driven by a desire to use an HTTP load
balancer in front of memcached, but memcached can already be balanced
across multiple machines with the hashing in the client libraries.  The
only reason to do HTTP-style load balancing (i.e. balancing across a
bank of identical machines) would be to handle memcached servers maxing
out on CPU or connections, which seems unlikely short of truly mammoth
levels of traffic.

- Perrin



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