java memcached client & tomcat

[David O'Dell]

We just deployed memcached to our tomcats last night.
We have 6 webs running apache/tomcat with 5 memcached instances in the
pool.
Each instance has 1gb of space and already we have 20,000 items cached
taking up 2.5 gb of space.

One surprise was the increase in load on the webs due to the network IO.
I expected the load to increase but its more than doubled.

Does anyone know if this it normal?


On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 11:17 +0530, John Navil Joseph wrote:
> Newbie to memcached here!
> 
> Has anyone been using the java memcached client (available @whalin.com) with Apache Tomcat? Just interested in knowing how tried and tested/widely deployed the combination is.
> 
> Also some pointers on using the SockIOPool connection pool mechanism with Tomcat will be helpful.
> 
> Thanks,
> John