Largest production memcached install?

[Attila Nagy]

Have you considered using NAPI(Linux)/polling(FreeBSD)?

Although it can increase response times a little, but helps freeing the 
machine from the interrupt load.

On 05/03/07 20:48, Steve Grimm wrote:
> At peak times we see about 35-40% utilization (that’s across all 4 
> CPUs.) But as you say, that number will vary dramatically depending on 
> how you use it. The biggest single user of CPU time isn’t actually 
> memcached per se; it’s interrupt handling for all the incoming packets.
>
> -Steve
>
>
> On 5/3/07 11:41 AM, "Jerry Maldonado" <jerry.maldonado at apollogrp.edu> 
> wrote:
>
>     With the configuration you noted below, what is your CPU
>     utilization. We are implementing memcached in our environment and
>     I am trying to get a feel for what we will need for production. I
>     realize that it all depends on how we are using it, but I am
>     interested to see what it is based on your configuration.
>
>     Thanks,
>
>     Jerry
>
>
>         -----Original Message-----
>         *From:* memcached-bounces at lists.danga.com
>         [mailto:memcached-bounces at lists.danga.com]
>         <mailto:memcached-bounces at lists.danga.com%5D>*On Behalf Of
>         *Steve Grimm
>         *Sent:* Thursday, May 03, 2007 11:33 AM
>         *To:* Sam Lavery; memcached at lists.danga.com
>         *Subject:* Re: Largest production memcached install?
>
>     No clue if we’re the largest installation, but Facebook has
>     roughly 200 dedicated memcached servers in its production
>     environment, plus a small number of others for development and so
>     on. A few of those 200 are hot spares. They are all 16GB 4-core
>     AMD64 boxes, just because that’s where the price/performance sweet
>     spot is for us right now (though it looks like 32GB boxes are
>     getting more economical lately, so I suspect we’ll roll out some
>     of those this year.)
>
>     We have a home-built management and monitoring system that keeps
>     track of all our servers, both memcached and other custom backend
>     stuff. Some of our other backend services are written
>     memcached-style with fully interchangeable instances; for such
>     services, the monitoring system knows how to take a hot spare and
>     swap it into place when a live server has a failure. When one of
>     our memcached servers dies, a replacement is always up and running
>     in under a minute.
>
>     All our services use a unified database-backed configuration
>     scheme which has a Web front-end we use for manual operations like
>     adding servers to handle increased load. Unfortunately that
>     management and configuration system is highly tailored to our
>     particular environment, but I expect you could accomplish
>     something similar on the monitoring side using Nagios or another
>     such app.
>
>     All that said, I agree with the earlier comment on this list:
>     start small to get some experience running memcached in a
>     production environment. It’s easy enough to expand later once you
>     have appropriate expertise and code in place to make things run
>     smoothly.
>
>     -Steve
>
>
>     On 5/3/07 8:06 AM, "Sam Lavery" <sam.lavery at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>         Does anyone know what the largest installation of memcached
>         currently is? I'm considering putting it on 100+
>         machines(solaris/mod_perl), and would love to hear any tips
>         people have for managing a group of that size(and larger).
>         Additionally, are there any particular patches I should try
>         out for this specific platform?
>
>
>         Thanks in advance,
>         Sam
>
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