PHP memcached extension

[Russ Garrett]

Well, it shouldn't be hard to put ours together, I was just wondering if 
there was an easier way (which it appears there isn't). It'll only take 
a second to add proper failover support to our class, but I've got 
bigger fish to fry at the moment.

We're not seeing a bottleneck on memcache at the moment (I thought we 
were but I was wrong), so I'll cross that bridge when we come to it.

Russ

Alex Stapleton wrote:

> Currently we aren't using memcached in production but we are planning 
> to shift some stuff onto it soon. We use that technique to get around 
> having to use the (generally crap and ancient) F5 load balancers 
> which have been in use for eon's because someone didn't think about 
> the bottleneck it might cause. I see no reason why it wouldn't work 
> for memcached though. So no, I don't have any memcached code that I 
> could open source.
>
> apr_memcached looks good. I've not used it though. I believe SWIG has 
> some vague PHP support these days, so that might make life a bit 
> lazier too. Personally I think the best solution is probably sticking 
> with your existing code for now and extending it with PHP as much as 
> you can. Unless your getting crap performance from your PHP code, in 
> which case I don't see anything wrong with just enhancing the PECL 
> module to whatever your PHP code looks slowest. It's not like a bit of 
> C is beyond your abilities ;)
>
> Considering maintaining the server list turned out to be about 30-40 
> lines of code at most, it's really not a big deal to implement. I can 
> probably rip out the relevant bits and e-mail them to you for 
> inspiration if you want? It's probably bugged anyway, so some fresh 
> eyes would do it good.