php-memcache, delete, expiration questions, ideas

[Ask Bjørn Hansen]

On Dec 5, 2005, at 2:28, Veres Lajos wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, mike wrote:
>
>> isn't that the point of a "distributed cache" mechanism though?
>> otherwise it would be a replicating cache... from all the terminology
>> I've had the pleasure of dealing with :)
>
> Yes, we are using memcached for 2 things:
> -session, we would like to store all sessiondata in all servers
> -caching, we would like to distribute cache data between servers

memcached is a cache.

[...]
> What do you think, there is any simpler solution for avoid session  
> loss when any server crashes?

Use a database that's made to support that (for example MySQL Cluster 
[1]).


  - ask

[1] http://www.mysql.com/products/cluster/

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