Memcache connection errors

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Reinis Rozitis wrote:

> $mc = new Memcache;
> if (!$mc->connect('127.0.0.1',11212)) { 
> $mc->connect('127.0.0.1',11212); }

In this case, if the memcached on 127.0.0.1 never answers, you'll wait 2 
seconds before failing to get the connection?

To the list, is there a way to get sub-second connection timeouts?

I'd kind of like to implement exactly this, but our memcached cluster is 
about 9 hosts, and if any one is down, it would cause executive-level 
despondancy if the site went from 0.5-second page render times to 
2.5-second page render times until we pulled the errant memcached 
instance out of the pool.

(Or does the timeout only apply if something answers on 11211, but never 
gives back proper protocol responses?)

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