memcached Digest, Vol 5, Issue 35

[Khazret Sapenov]

> Message: 7
> Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 14:52:05 -0500
> From: Jeraimee Hughes <jhughes at revelex.com>
> Subject: Another Memcached User
> To: memcached at lists.danga.com
> Message-ID: <F3289DDE-5909-11D9-9731-000D93C1CC78 at revelex.com>
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> We have successfully placed memcached into production here at Revelex.
> We have started by using memcached as a storage system for our PHP
> sessions. As of this email we have 57,360 sessions across 3 servers
> (our expire time is 30 minutes). We host over 650 Web sites with heavy
> session use.
>
> Since bringing memcached online we have had a total of 566,509 gets and
> 566,361 sets in less then 24 hours (again across 3 servers). Having run
> less then 24 hours we'll soon find out what lies ahead but so far we
> have great results.
>
> We have tried using MySQL, NFS-mounted flat-files and even NFS-mounted
> RAM drives to no avail. To date, only memcached has been able to keep
> up with our needs.
>
> Future use includes caching of specific objects and/or values to be
> shared across objects and potentially utilizing memcached with some
> reporting methods.
>
> Thanks to Brad for a great tool and Antony for a great PHP extension.
>
> If anyone else has used memcached in this method please feel free to
> comment and provide some insight as to what we may look out for.
>
> ---
> Jeraimee Hughes
> Application Director
> Revelex, Inc.
> http://www.revelex.com/
>
>
> ---
> Jeraimee Hughes
> Application Director
> Revelex, Inc.
> 561.988.5588

Have you tried to compare memcached and php's Msession (
http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/ref.msession.php )  ?

regards,

Khazretgali Sapenov