It does write to disk, so maybe it's not appropriate for your use. It is widely used in embedded systems though.
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 9:08 AM, Hans Kramer <jlam.kra...@gmail.com> wrote: > Doesn't BerkelyDB write to disk? (of course I could use a tmpfs...... hmmm > ) > And I us the auto expire of items in memcache.... > > Thanks for the tip, I definitely will consider it! > > Hans > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Perrin Harkins <phark...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> You might want to look at alternatives in that kind of setup. For >> example, BerkeleyDB is quite a bit faster than memcached when your cache is >> just on one local system. The advantages of memcached come into play when >> you have a large cache across multiple machines. >> >> - Perrin >> >> On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 6:00 AM, Hans Kramer <jlam.kra...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am using memcached on a system with very modest RAM: 64Mb to be >>> precise (an Artila Matrix 504). >>> I have specified -M 1 -t 1 to reduce the memory allocated by memcached. >>> Now RSS is always modest and around an explainable value, however, VSZ >>> is at least 20Mb and with every >>> thread I add VSZ increases with at least 6 Mbytes. If I understand this >>> correctly, this relative "high" VSZ, increases the oom_score >>> a lot. Hence I would like to reduce unnecessary alloc as much as >>> possible. >>> I have briefly looked at the memcached source and I cannot any >>> significant mallocs. Is this perhaps coming from the libevent >>> library? >>> >>> Any insights will be helpful. >>> >>> Kind regards >>> >>> Hans >>> >>> -- >>> >>> --- >>> 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/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "memcached" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/memcached/c-jJSFKZ1d0/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> memcached+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > > --- > 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/d/optout. > -- --- 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/d/optout.
