Are you sure? When hashing the key, to determine which server to send it to, on some machines it will put key 'foo' on server web3, but on web3 it will put it on localhost?
It just doesn't seem like good practice to me to access a member of a cluster by using localhost, when other clients will be accessing it differently. Especially if you do like I do and have a single config file that is rsynced to all the cache servers. I'm not sure I see what actual gain you get by using localhost. On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 7:48 PM, Henrik Schröder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 9:26 PM, TheJonathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> I think I get it. So if I'm passing in the array of memcached IPs via >> a web.config, make sure they are in the same order on all load- >> balanced machines. e.g. >> web1 = localhost, web2 >> web2 = web1, localhost >> > > As long as you use the same names everywhere you will be fine. If you were > using my client, it can take either "host", "ip", "host:port" or "ip:port" > when you setup the list, and it will then use those strings that you supply > as the basis for the server mapping algorithm, so those strings have to be > the same in all clients. You could for example configure it with > "localhost", "localhost:11211" and "127.0.0.1", and it would treat that as > three different servers, although the lookup for all three returns the same > ip and port. > > @Kevin: Is the hashing algorithm you mentioned something I would have >> to implement myself, or a feature? I was going to use the enyim >> Memcached client in .NET 2.0 http://www.codeplex.com/EnyimMemcached/ >> but I could be swayed. > > > This is not the .Net client you are looking for, you want use my client: > http://code.google.com/p/beitmemcached. You are feeling very sleepy, and > very swayed! :-) > > Yes, all memcached clients implement a hashing algorithm for you, that's > not something you need to worry about. Some clients let you plug in your own > in the rare event that you would need that. > > > /Henrik Schröder > -- "Be excellent to each other"
