Tried and tested method to...

[dormando]

"BEST" totally depends on your application, and your setup :)

There're several example layers which help. Presently gaiaonline.com is 
using the memcached approach, but we will be allowing perlbal to cache 
paths as well.

The idea is simple:

- Store file into mogilefs.
- On fetch, use a very thin php/perl/whatever layer to check memcached 
for available paths first. Then update the paths later.
- You can let perlbal know to cache paths on its own as well. I don't 
know the config for this off the top of my head. For very popular images 
that can have a significant performance impact.

The downside is as the nodes switch around, files could become 
unavailable, or nodes could go missing. For this case you always want to 
pass all of the available paths back to perlbal to try to serve to the 
client. If one path is unavailable, perlbal will keep trying until it 
finds one that works.

It should be possible (either now, or sometime in the near future) to 
hook into mogilefs to update your caches for you. I haven't done this 
myself yet, but that would be more ideal. Should clear even more hits 
off of your trackers.

Also, if you don't care _that_ much, you can pass the no_verify=1 (sorry 
if I'm missquoting all these, I'm way too lazy to look it up right now 
;) to the tracker get_paths command, which will make the tracker 
immediately return the paths. Otherwise the tracker will only return 
paths it confirms to be alive after testing, which adds extra load to 
the setup.

-Dormando

Ashish Padave wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Could you please tell me what is the BEST method to reduce hits to the 
> MogileFS tracker? I have read about using memcached. how does it measure 
> up to any other available alternatives.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Ashish