Oh! That's great, also found a repo that has a package of 1.4.15 available for Ubuntu 12.04 (Since the regular 12.04 repos don't have that version yet) If that is of any use: http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/ppa/nathan-renniewaldock_ppa?dist=precise
If you are around here Nathan, thanks :) I am going to try bombing it with data and see how it rolls. Thanks Yiftach! Saved my day. On Monday, December 3, 2012 1:51:18 PM UTC+2, Yiftach wrote: > > AFAIK, since version 1.4.14, the max size of a Memcached object is 500MB. > > See more details here: > > https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/memcached/MOfjAseECrU > > > > On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Nadav Har Tzvi > <fred...@gmail.com<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> Hello there, >> >> Let me just start this topic by stating that I do know of the 1 MB item >> size limitation in memcached and the reasons for why it is so. >> >> However I am faced here with a dilema. As part of a web service, I have >> to return a bit large JSON object that includes base64 encoded images in it >> (thus the large size). >> The average JSON object size should be somewhere between 1.2 MB to 2MB >> max. >> In order to boost the whole deal, I decided to cache those items (Server >> has more than enough memory) and grant access from Nginx to reduce the load >> on the service and provide quicker responses. >> >> So my question is this, should I go for increasing memcached item size or >> is there any other solution to bypass this problem? Searching google didn't >> provide any good results, maybe you have any idea of how to deal with this? >> >> Thanks. >> > > > > -- > > Yiftach Shoolman > +972-54-7634621 > >
