maximum cache memory that can be assigned for memcache

[Jehiah Czebotar]

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:14 AM, bharath venkatesh
<bharathv6.project at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi,
>     what is the maximum cache memory that can be assigned for memcache ?
> and pls tell how to assign memory more than that maximum cache memory
>
>
> thanks
>
>

by definition you can't assign more than a 'maximum' if there were one.

You can practically assign almost as much memory as you have free
memory available on your system. You can use the -m command line flag
to set the amount of memory each memcached instance uses.

The approach (and what makes memcached really useful) to allocating
more memory than you have on a single server is to run multiple
instances on multiple servers; this way you get a larger total amount
of memory. All clients will then distribute their cache requests
across multiple servers.

You might also find more useful information here:
http://www.socialtext.net/memcached/index.cgi


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Jehiah