Thanks Perrin for correcting me and for the link. can you guide me where can i properly understand how client will find which server it has to send the key.
On Friday, 11 October 2013 11:36:34 UTC-4, perrin wrote: > > Hi, > > Are you talking about a client library? The memcached server doesn't know > anything about other servers and doesn't dispatch requests. > > https://code.google.com/p/memcached/wiki/NewOverview#Smarts_Half_in_Client,_Half_in_Server > > - Perrin > > > > On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 3:12 AM, SivaRam M <siva...@gmail.com<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> HI , >> I wanted to know how distributed hashing works and exact workflow of >> any of the GET/STORE/DELETE . >> I have gone through the code in memcached.c and there is a pool of >> connections for requests . I'm finding it tedious to understand. >> >> - thread.c which calls item_get () which uses a hash functions from >> hash.c (I think this is hash returns IP of the server) >> - item_get() function again calls do_item_get() from items.c which >> calls assoc_find() .( this hash for which bucket the item has to go ) >> >> This is what I understood from the material i have gone through . >> libevent has a pool of threads and when ever there is a request from client >> it randomly sent to a server A and from there after hashing the request is >> sent to proper server B. >> >> I just want to know what happens in these two functions and when any of >> the GET/STORE/DELETE is called how a request is passed to the correct >> server where key item is present from client side . Please correct me if >> I'm wrong in understanding concepts. >> >> Thanks >> Mothiki >> >> >> -- >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "memcached" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to memcached+...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "memcached" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to memcached+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
