Memcached failover?

Prateek Mathur mathurprateek at gmail.com
Thu Oct 19 06:06:42 UTC 2006


Thanks Jeetu for the information.

-Prateek.


On 10/19/06, Jeetendra Mirchandani <jeetum at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> In short, Memcached does not store a replica of any data!
>
> Although, there have been discussions about this.
>
> See these posts:
>
> http://lists.danga.com/pipermail/memcached/2006-October/002856.html
> http://lists.danga.com/pipermail/memcached/2006-October/002891.html
>
> -Jeetu
>
> On 10/18/06, Prateek Mathur <mathurprateek at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Does memcached support failover for the several memcached instances that
> are
> > run.
> > Memcached is a global cache where entries of the cached are *uniquely*
> > distributed over a number of memcached instances(servers).
> > So if there is a strong requirement of having a failover system,would
> > memcached fit in this system? In other words, if a particular memcached
> > server goes down,can those server's keys and values be available on some
> > other running instance?
> >
> > Fail over systems generally make redundant entries on different
> instances of
> > servers.So how can memcached fit in such a model if needed?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Prateek.
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Jeetu
> http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~jeetu
>
> "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
>
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