<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Thanks for the tips - I will keep that in mind.<br><br><br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Jehiah Czebotar <jehiah@gmail.com><br>To: a f <just1coder@yahoo.ca><br>Cc: memcached@lists.danga.com<br>Sent: Tuesday, May 8, 2007 6:03:57 PM<br>Subject: Re: Multiple nodes vs multiple servers<br><br><div>On 5/8/07, a f <just1coder@yahoo.ca> wrote:<br>><br>> Ideally, scaling out to many memcached servers (with >1 node) would be<br>> preferred but for a pilot I am working on building out a memcached box on an<br>> existing server. It has a dual-xeons and 8GB of RAM. Would it be preferred<br>> to use many instances on that
single server or is it possible to have 1 very<br>> large instance?<br><br>for your scenario; one instance will do just fine. (one instance is<br>preferred to keep the number of connections down, and so that client<br>libraries can better optimize multi get requests)<br><br>also many on this list (myself included) would recommend you not<br>"guess" at how much memcached memory space you actually need, but<br>start with something small like say a few hundred megs of memory<br>(memcached is really efficient) and grow it as you need while watching<br>your usage stats.<br><br>-- <br>Jehiah<br></div></div><br></div></div><br>
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