Author: DrMeers Date: 2011-09-20 18:33:14 -0700 (Tue, 20 Sep 2011) New Revision: 16858
Modified: django/trunk/docs/topics/cache.txt Log: Fixed #16886 -- Memcached socket file documentation. Thanks ddbeck for the report and patch. Modified: django/trunk/docs/topics/cache.txt =================================================================== --- django/trunk/docs/topics/cache.txt 2011-09-20 18:30:06 UTC (rev 16857) +++ django/trunk/docs/topics/cache.txt 2011-09-21 01:33:14 UTC (rev 16858) @@ -100,8 +100,9 @@ on your chosen memcached binding) * Set :setting:`LOCATION <CACHES-LOCATION>` to ``ip:port`` values, - where ``ip`` is the IP address of the Memcached daemon and - ``port`` is the port on which Memcached is running. + where ``ip`` is the IP address of the Memcached daemon and ``port`` is the + port on which Memcached is running, or to a ``unix:path`` value, where + ``path`` is the path to a Memcached Unix socket file. In this example, Memcached is running on localhost (127.0.0.1) port 11211, using the ``python-memcached`` binding:: @@ -113,6 +114,16 @@ } } +In this example, Memcached is available through a local Unix socket file +:file:`/tmp/memcached.sock` using the ``python-memcached`` binding:: + + CACHES = { + 'default': { + 'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.MemcachedCache', + 'LOCATION': 'unix:/tmp/memcached.sock', + } + } + One excellent feature of Memcached is its ability to share cache over multiple servers. This means you can run Memcached daemons on multiple machines, and the program will treat the group of machines as a *single* cache, without the need -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django updates" group. To post to this group, send email to django-updates@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-updates+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-updates?hl=en.