mod_perl best practice?

[Grigory O. Ptashko]

> On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Paul Dlug wrote:

>> What's the best practice for using Cache::Memcached with mod_perl? Is it
>> safe to instantiate one instance of Cache::Memcached per process and have
>> all other modules use a global variable to access it? (If not how else would
>> you handle connection pooling?)

> Yeah, a "global" ("singleton") is what a lot of people do.  But do it
> after the mod_perl fork so different processes aren't sharing the same
> sockets.


I am asking this type of question (regarding singletons) for the
second time. But..
You mean that it is OK to use one instance of Cache::Memcached inside
one httpd child for set/get cache?

Thanks.

>> How does failure of a node work? I know that it rehashes over the nodes that
>> are alive but does it recheck the health of the failed node and add it back
>> into the loop?

> Yes.

>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Paul
>>