Large object support

[Wes Gamble]

Eric,

Thanks for the response.

I submitted a bug against this (on the seattlerb project on RubyForge) 
that an exception should be thrown.

I spent a loooong time discovering this limit.

I am adding support for large objects to my local copy of memcache-client.

Wes

Eric Hodel wrote:

>
> On Mar 6, 2007, at 09:55, Wes Gamble wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a Ruby on Rails application running on the following platform:
>>
>> Mandriva Linux release 2006.0 (Official) for i586
>> Kernel 2.6.12-27mdksmp on a 4-processor i686 / \l
>>
>> I'm using the Rubygem "memcache-client" to access and store data in  
>> my installation of memcache.
>>
>> I don't seem to be able to store objects of approximate size 1MB or  
>> greater in the memcache.  These same puts work fine on my Windows box.
>>
>> Are there any known limitations to how large an object can be  stored 
>> in memcache?  Does anyone have any examples of storing  something 1MB 
>> or so or bigger?
>> Should I be looking at the Ruby binding as the source of my problem?
>
>
> $ cat test.rb
> require 'rubygems'
> require 'memcache'
>
> text = '0' * 1024 * 1024
>
> mc = MemCache.new 'localhost:11211'
>
> result = mc.set 'text', text
>
> puts result
>
> $ ruby test.rb
> SERVER_ERROR object too large for cache
>
> I should probably raise an exception, but I don't.
>
> Running memcached -vv shows the same.
>