Re: python-memcached server selection code (long)

[Dustin Sallings]

On Oct 25, 2007, at 8:11 , Robert Szefler wrote:

2. Use the consistent hashing stuff and when a machine goes down
 remove it from the cache configuration file.  Without consistent
 hashing removing a machine would flush the cache on all nodes.
 With consistent hashing the impact is greatly reduced.

Please, could you describe it in more detail to me? I guess I don't see the idea clearly from the short description Jeremy posted.

        http://cn.last.fm/user/RJ/journal/2007/04/10/392555/

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Dustin Sallings