PHP Daemon marks Memcache as failed every few days

[Brian Moon]

Marcus Bointon wrote:
> Not quite the same thing, but I ran into the opposite scenario recently. 
> A simple scp of a 180Mb file between servers (dual dual Xeons) on a 
> gigabit LAN. With compression (scp -C) it sustained about 12Mb/sec net 
> throughput (15 sec to copy, i.e. CPU compression speed is limiting the 
> rate), but without compression it did 70Mb/sec (just under 3 sec to copy 
> - I was impressed! probably disk limited (U320, 10k)). i.e. if you have 
> gigabit locally, the throughput comes much cheaper than compression. I 
> suspect YMMV quite a lot, so it's probably worth benchmarking. 100Mbit 
> can usually deliver around 10Mb/sec, so had I been on that, compression 
> would have been the faster choice. Similar choices will apply to other 
> protocols that support compression such as MySQL (client and slave 
> traffic). Generally, gigabit rocks...


We use all gigabit.  I think its just an apples to oranges thing here. 
You were transferring a big file, off disk, compressing on the fly.  The 
PHP memcache client compresses in memory data, then transfers it over 
the wire.

Of course, you always want to benchmark your stuff.  Someone off list 
tells me that "Nothing is fast in JAVA."  Don't know, never touched the 
stuff.  The real question is what is slower?

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