Memcached slower than Caching in files?

Silvan Mühlemann silvan.muehlemann at tilllate.com
Tue Oct 31 18:17:35 UTC 2006


BUSTARRET, Jean-Francois schrieb:
> - Do you use file locking ?
>
>   
[...]
> IMHO, in a single server/single process setup, memcache would be less efficient than files.
>
> As far as I am concerned, I did experience performance problems with memcache (the PHP pecl API), that were solved by :
> memcache.chunk_size = 32768
>
>   
Thanks for you valuable suggestions. I will adapt the benchmark: Call it 
through the web server and compare it to Cache_Lite using file locking.

I will let you know of the results as soon as I have them...


Silvan



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