How to maintain cache update on different memcached servers?

[Andrew Pile]

That is NOT how it works. The data is not stored evenly on all  
servers, it is hashed and sent to one server.

On Oct 31, 2006, at 11:26 AM, Jehiah Czebotar wrote:

>> so, correct me if i am wrong...
>>
>> 1. on each memcached server, i start the memcached deamon as they are
>> separetely server, they don't know each other, e.g.
>> ./memcached -d -m 2048 -l 10.0.0.40 -p 11211
>>
>> 2. during connection from client, add all the servers...
>> e.g.
>>
>> $memcache = new Memcache;
>> $memcache->addServer('memcache_host', 11211);
>> $memcache->addServer('memcache_host2', 11211);
>>
>> 3. the memcached objects will be stored evenly on all these server,
>> and i can get it using Memcache::get , without specifying the server
>> host
>>
>
> correct: that is exactly it.
>
> (just make sure the memory you are configuring memcached to use (2048)
> is not larger than the actuall free RAM on your machines)
>
> --
> Jehiah