memcached debate

[andrew at flypublishing.com]

thanks.  At what point would you say it does get unpractical?  5000
requests per second?  50,000 per second?

On 4/19/07, Ask Bjørn Hansen <ask at develooper.com> wrote:
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> On Apr 19, 2007, at 16:29, andrew at flypublishing.com wrote:
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> > They change all the time.  Basically I'm wondering if I can just treat
> > this huge block of memory as if it were internal memory or am I
> > kidding myself with the network issue?  thanks.
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> 500 requests per second across 20 servers is ~nothing (in particular
> if it's say 25 processes doing 20 lookups each per second).
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> Depending on how your application uses it and the latency
> requirements then it should be fine.
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