Different memcached cache sizes across servers

[dormando]

It doesn't. You can work around this a little by specifying a server 
multiple times in your server list. So a 2G machine gets listed once, 
while a 12G machine could get listed 6 times.

-Dormando

Mark Maunder wrote:
> Is it sensible to have different cache sizes across multiple servers 
> running memcached. I have one machine with 16GB of memory not doing much 
> and I could use 12GB for memcached. My other servers have 2GB available 
> for memcached. Will it include memory size in it's decision on where to 
> store stuff? Or does it simply load share evenly across all machines and 
> if one out of three servers runs out of memory then a third of new data 
> won't be cached?
> 
> This faq entry seems to suggest that the hashing algorithm doesn't take 
> into account how much cache is available on each server:
> 
> http://www.socialtext.net/memcached/index.cgi?faq#how_does_memcached_work
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mark.
>