memcache bugs on 64-bit platforms?

[Steven Grimm]

We are running exclusively on 64-bit machines. We had to modify the 
1.1.12 sources to support cache sizes of greater than 4GB, but 
1.1.13-pre2 should have all our changes so you should be fine.

The comment you're referring to is in code that implements a new binary 
protocol. None of the existing clients make use of that protocol so you 
should be safe.

-Steve



Serhat Sakarya wrote:
> Does anyone have experience with running memcached on 64-bit 
> platforms? I'm using memcached on a dual-core opteron 170 with RHEL 4.3.
>
> I've noticed that 1.1.13-pre2 has protocol bugs that 1.1.12 doesn't 
> (or at least: they're not triggered by the same code). In the code, 
> there is a line "XXX NOT SAFE ON 64 BIT FOR PROTOCOL REASONS NEED TO 
> RECODE TO USE 4 byte INTS ONLY" that indicates that this is a known bug.
>
> Can it be safely assumed that 1.1.12 is stable for 64-bit?
>
> Regards,
>
> Serhat