Transparent failover and restore?
Kevin A. Burton
burton at newsmonster.org
Sun Dec 19 16:11:37 PST 2004
Jon Valvatne wrote:
>I think the point is this: If you're using memcached in a way that means
>losing a server will bring down the system, then you should probably be
>looking at using the MySQL "redundant storage thing" instead of the
>memcached "cache thing". Traditional usage of a cache usually means
>losing parts or all of it is *not* fatal.
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But I don't think its too big of a requirement to want to store 40% of
you're app in memcached. If one server goes down you'll have cache
misses again until you get back up to your 40%.
This could be a catastrophic failure for some applications and I don't
think its necessary. I guess you could defend the status quo as being
good enough but theres no reason it can't be better ;)
Kevin
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