memcached persistent load balancing with an f5 big-ip

[Jehiah Czebotar]

On 6/6/06, Matthew Kent <mkent at magoazul.com> wrote:
>
> If you have a f5 big-ip load balancer in your network (running some of
> the more recent software) you can use an iRule to distribute data to a
> pool of memcached servers based on a crc32 of the incoming key. The
> payload will be reexamined for each get/set request, allowing you to
> leave the connection open indefinitely.
>

I'm curious on how you deal with multi get requests ("get ke1 key2
key3"). Does it just pass them through to one server at random, and
return 1/nth of the results a correct request would (where n is the
number of distributed servers)

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