Newbie question: memcached slow the first time a value is read?

[Tim Strehle]

Hi,

Andy Bakun wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 13:49 +0100, Tim Strehle wrote:
> 
>>You're right, memcached data had been swapped to disk. A simple "swapoff 
>>-a" fixed this, now memcached is always as fast as expected. (Not sure 
>>whether I want to do this on a production web server, though...)
> 
> 
> Look into the -k option to memcached.  You may need to run as root (I
> have not looked at the code, but I assume memcached uses mlockall) in
> order to do this, in which case, the -u option might be useful also.
> 
> -u <username> assume identity of <username> (only when run as root)
> -k            lock down all paged memory

thanks for the hint - I'll try using that switch.

Regards,
Tim

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