Max Connections on Windows = Bug?

[Stephen Bazemore]

Thanks for the reply Jeremy. We are not using the -c argument. And we are
experiencing the same results with 1.2.1 as well. I will continue to
troubleshoot the issue and report anything else I may encounter.

Stephen Bazemore



On 2/2/07, Jeremy Kronuz <kronuz at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Stephen Bazemore wrote:
> >Ok so here's what I've got. We run windows server 2003 machines with
> >memcached 1.2.0. I've read alot on the mailing list and everyone say's
> the
> >max connections to memcached is 1024 unless specified otherwise. How
> would
> >it be possible to go above that limit? For month's all of our memcached
> >instances have had on average around 3,500 connections on each.  I didn't
> >think much about it because we weren't having any issues. Just recently
> >we've optimized alot of code which is allowing more users to hit our site
> >and the memcached connections are getting onward of 10,000 per instance.
> >When that happens our network slows to a crawl and I have to shut the
> site
> >off in order to let the connections die off.
> >
> >Is there a known bug in the windows version of memcached that would
> ignore
> >the max connections limit?
> >
>
> Stephen, no, this isn't known. Are you using the -c argument to change the
> maximum number of connections to 10,000 ? under Windows, that setting is
> ignored and the limit is the number of connections the box can handle...
> although the listen() backlog is hardcoded to 1024 (unix version too). I
> guess we'll have to further investigate this issue; hopefully someone with
> enough knowledge regarding sockets can explain the behavior you've
> exposed.
> Try using version 1.2.1 to see if it changes anything.
>
> Regards,
> Kronuz.
>
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