unix socket,php

Ivan Krstić krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu
Fri Jan 12 09:16:41 UTC 2007


Roberto Spadim wrote:
> i found that memcache work with sockets (-s sockfile) and tugela cache
> don't (ok, i will use memcache)
> but php extension just have connect for (host,port), how to connect on a
> unix socket?

Obviously, connecting on unix domain sockets doesn't scale if you have
more than one memcache server. If you're only running one server, then
1) you probably don't want to be using memcache, as using a database
table or flat file will be faster, and 2) the speed difference between
unix domain sockets and loopback TCP/IP will be negligible for almost
all practical purposes, as loopback I/O hits the network stack's fast
paths inside modern Linux kernels.

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