restarting every night?

[Ask Bjørn Hansen]

On Jun 6, 2007, at 10:27 AM, andrew at flypublishing.com wrote:

> A friend of mine says he restarts his memcached servers every night
> because after a few days the data gets corrupted.
>
> Is this common practice?  Does anyone have experience running
> memcached for months on end with no data corruption?

What's a restart?

If the data gets corrupted then his application or client libraries  
must be setting corrupted data.  (Or if it's a bug in memcached then  
he forgot to report it and nobody else has ...)


  - ask

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