item expiration

Dustin Sallings dustin at spy.net
Wed Jun 11 16:30:45 UTC 2008


   IMO, the idea does conflict a bit with the idea of a cache, at  
least as I understand it.

   Implementation-wise, it seems like another command to flag an  
existing record as one that should specify LRU  priority.

   I can imagine if you have items you want to not be removed by LRU  
that you perhaps also have items you consider cheaper than others and  
would prefer these other items discarded before more expensive items  
to recreate.

   Likewise, it doesn't unreasonable to have items you want to expire  
at a particular point in time, but not before it.

   If you can imagine communicating a cost of invalidation to  
memcached, you could see how careful use of such a thing could  
potentially make for more efficient systems.  For a finite list of  
priorities, it could be inplemented quite easily and efficiently.

-- 
Dustin Sallings (mobile)

On Jun 11, 2008, at 5:48, "Reinis Rozitis" <roze at roze.lv> wrote:

>> RR the patch you pointed to sounds exactly what I'm looking for.  
>> If  you would not mind posting your latest version patch please.
>
> This is not my patch (all credits go to Paul G) but just a bit  
> tweaked to apply for current (1.2.5) release.
> http://roze.lv/memcached-permitems.patch
>
>
> As to answering few of Brads comments:
>
> I think Paul wanted to show just some quick working concept of the  
> feature which in real world situations is pretty usefull rather than  
> push the patch directly into source. Ram is cheap, but in some cases  
> you still can't deploy enough to satisfy all the web-coder needs so  
> instead of cycling the cache all the time give some logic and  
> decision possibilities to (client) software which data is more  
> important.
>
> It sure  needs love to cope with the current code-style, but the  
> question is whether the current developers are fine with the idea/ 
> option at all.
>
> rr
>


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