Largest production memcached install?

Peter Van Dijck petervandijck at gmail.com
Thu May 3 17:35:35 UTC 2007


I can think of 1 thing: why not start with say 10 memcached instances,
for learning purposes? Only cache a few things.

Peter

On 5/3/07, Sam Lavery <sam.lavery at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm really curious about how a site with a large number of caches handles
> the day to day management of them.  How are they monitored, and how are
> individual caches taken in and out of service?  What problems were
> encountered during the initial roll out, etc  Any help you guys could
> provide would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Sam
>
>
>
> On 5/3/07, Brandon Ooi <brandon at hotornot.com> wrote:
> > think the largest installation would be wikipedia?
> >
> > brandon
> >
> > Jonathan Chong wrote:
> > > I'm guessing that Facebook has more than that number of servers, and
> > > is known to be using memcached.
> > >
> > > How many web servers does livejournal have, does anyone know?
> > >
> > >
> > > On 03/05/07, *Sam Lavery* <sam.lavery at gmail.com
> > > <mailto: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
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Jonathan Chong
> > >
> > > http://jonathanchong.com/
> > > http://arsenal-mania.com/
> >
>
>


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