Question to Cache::Memcached

[Joachim Bauernberger]

Hi,

consider the snipped below which extracts the _hashfuc from Memcached.pm.

=46eeding a key to set or add which looks like this:
"020/dating/profilcache/profilAnsicht.xmlindex=3Dpage1userid=3D1812379"

will result in an internal key like:
2.34523032118619e+15

doing a % modulo on this value will always result in 0 therefore the array=
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index is 0 and the second server is ignored.

Best regards,
~/joachim

#########################################
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;

my $res =3D  _hashfunc($ARGV[0])."\n";

print "$res\n";
print "res % 2: ". $res % 2 ."\n";

sub _hashfunc {
    my $hash =3D 0;
    foreach (split //, shift) {
            $hash =3D $hash*33 + ord($_);
    }
return $hash;
}
########################################

Not sure if something like the following would work better in this case (or=
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break something else):

foreach (split //, shift) {
 $hash +=3D sprintf("%d",ord($_));=20
}

Thanks & Best regards,
~/joachim

Regards,
~/joachim


On Monday 07 June 2004 22:56, Joachim Bauernberger wrote:
> Hi Brad,
>
> On Monday 07 June 2004 21:09, Brad Fitzpatrick wrote:
> > > How does the module decide which backend to give it too (if no weight
> > > value is specified)?
> >
> > It runs the key through a hashing function, then mods that number with
> > the number of buckets (number of servers * each's weight) and uses the
> > result as the bucket number.
> >
> > So if you have two servers:
> >
> > 10.0.0.1 weight 1   ->  1 bucket  (bucket 0)
> > 10.0.0.2 weight 3   ->  3 buckets (bucket 1, 2, 3)
> >
> > Total:                  4 buckets
> >
> > So now we have key "foobar".  HashValue("foobar") =3D 238423432423434.
> >
> > Taking the hash value, mod 4 (4 buckets)...
> >
> >  238423432423434 % 4 =3D 2 (bucket 2)
> >
> > So it uses 10.0.0.2
> >
> > > Is there a restriction on how the keys may look?
> >
> > No spaces or newlines.
> >
> > > My keys are similar to this (without quotes):
> > >
> > > "010/dating/profilansicht/profilAnsicht.xmlindex=3Dpage1userid=3D2170=
797"
> >
> > That looks fine.
> >
> > So the mystery is:  what hash values is it calculating for your keys?
> > It'd be way too weird if they were all 0.
>
> I just added some debugging to Memcached.pm:
>
> first in get_sock() just after asigning a value to $hv
>
> print STDERR "[JMBDEBUG] hv =3D $hv
> bucketcount=3D".$self->{'bucketcount'}."\n";
>
> this results in the following output:
>
> [JMBDEBUG] hv =3D 8.25640843592502e+101 bucketcount=3D2
>
>
> then in get_sock() just after $host gets calculated:
> print STDERR "[JMBDEBUG] host=3D".$host." ".$self->{'buckets'}[0]." ".
> $self->{'buckets'}[1]."\n";
>
> which results in:
> [JMBDEBUG] host=3D127.0.0.1:11211 127.0.0.1:11211 127.0.0.1:11212
>
> Somehow I always get 0 from this:
>  $hv % $self->{'bucketcount'}
>
> Thanks again,
> ~/joachim

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