Is memcached a good way to store session share ammong web servers?

[Evert|Rooftop]

Memcache throws out your data when you hit the memory limits.. its 
simply not a guarantee to keep your data..

Evert

howard chen wrote:
> On 11/13/06, Evert | Rooftop <evertpot at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The best possible situation is:
>>
>> * don't let sessions expire
>> * only update memcached and the database when session information is
>> updated (so record what the sessiondata was on the beginning of the 
>> script)
>> * read session data from memcached.. if it isn't there, use the database
>>
>> But yea.. this will only work for non-expiring sessions. If you need
>> your sessions to timeout in a while, its harder because you need to keep
>> updating the databaseserver with the last request time..
>>
>> Evert
>>
>> howard chen wrote:
>> > Anyone used memcached to store sessions?
>> >
>> > Are there any special thing need to take care of? e.g. session expire?
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> >
>>
>
> why need to store the session on the database?
>
> why not just use memcached as a shared drive for session?
>
> howard
>