Spreading key/value pairs across multiple memcached servers

[Greg Whalin]

A good hashing algorithm should take care of this for you.  I am under 
the impression that the currently used default for the perl and php 
clients is using a new alg based on a crc32 checksum that gets very even 
key distribution, so I don't see this as being an issue.

Chris Hartjes wrote:
> My boss has requested that if we are to implement the use of memcached
> for our site, that we need to "load balance" the data we place in
> multiple memcached servers.  I guess the concern is that we would be
> overtaxing one memcached server while other memcached servers are
> being underutilized.
> 
> Thoughts?  Comments?  
>