Why not let the fs handle this ??

[Brian Moon]

> ideally there would be a way to specify a 1 second timeout on memcache 
> connection, which would get around this, but as far as i'm aware the 2 
> minute thing is an OS limitation.  would love to be proved wrong on that :)

What client are you using?  That is no OS limit.  As you can see here: 
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.memcache-addserver.php the PHP 
client allows you to pass a timeout per server.

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