PHP Daemon marks Memcache as failed every few days

[Iain Bapty]

Hi Nathan,

I ran a test overnight to determine the string length at the point of failure.

Updating Graph Data
str len = 2044967

Notice: Memcache::set(): marked server 'localhost:11211' as failed in
D:\AJAX3\daemon.php on line 62

Note that, in my original E-mail, I slightly simplified what is
actually saved every 5 seconds. There is actually 4 different class
instances which I'm saving on each loop. The 2044967 figure is the
string length of all 4 instances in serialized form.

Thanks for your help,

Iain.

On 5/22/07, Nathan Schmidt <nathan at pbwiki.com> wrote:
> Are you setting data which is 'around 1 Mb' when serialized? You
> might be going over the 'max bucket size' every now and then. I've
> seen that happen when using otherwise reasonable defaults in php --
> client libs essentially go dark for the remainder of their lives when
> they get a NOT_STORED or SERVER_ERROR message. It's bad for web
> clients but awful with a long-running command line program.
>
> What is strlen(serialize($oGraph)) ?
>
> -n
>
> On May 22, 2007, at 2:01 AM, Iain Bapty wrote:
>
> > Dear All,
> >
> > I've developed a PHP Daemon application which retrieves data from a
> > web service every 5 seconds and saves the data using Memcache. The
> > application has been in development for a week with the daemon
> > running solidly for nearly 7 days. Over those 7 days, the daemon
> > has terminated a few times due to a loss of connectivity to the
> > Memcache.
> >
> > Notice: Memcache::set(): marked server 'localhost:11211' as failed
> > in D:\AJAX3\daemon.php on line 44
> >
> > The following line is used to add data to the Memcache.
> >
> > $memcache->set('Graph', $oGraph, false, 10)
> >
> > Note that the 5-second loop does not reconnect to Memcache on each
> > iteration. An initial connection is made when the daemon is started
> > and this connection is reused for each loop. Would it be better to
> > reconnect to Memcache every 5 seconds?
> >
> > The Memcached is running as a Windows service and there isn't
> > anything in the Windows Event Viewer to suggest that the daemon has
> > terminated.
> >
> > The error handling in the daemon is currently being revised so it
> > will gracefully handle this situation and reconnect to the
> > Memcache. However, I am planning on relying on the Memcache so any
> > comments on how to debug this issue would be very much appreciated.
> >
> > I'm running:
> >
> > PHP 5.2.1
> > Memcache extension taken from http://pecl4win.php.net/ext.php/
> > php_memcache.dll
> > Memcached 1.2.1 ( http://jehiah.cz/projects/memcached-win32/)
> > Running on Windows XP
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Iain
>
>