Why not let the fs handle this ??

[Constantin B]

How do you manage the tcptimeout to connect to memcache server when its
"half/down" , the timeout must be very low ?


2006/6/7, Don MacAskill <don at smugmug.com>:
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> Jon Drukman wrote:
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> > so removing a downed box from the memcache server pool list promptly is
> > essential - which means all keys get reshuffled.
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> Actually, what you want to do is keep the server in the pool, but flag
> is as down, so keys don't get reshuffled but clients also don't bother
> to connect.  Hits to it just automatically fail and revert to non-cached
> hits.
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> As for the timeout, most languages should let you specify socket
> timeouts and the like.  I'd shudder to think of using anything longer
> than 1 second.
>
> Don
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