dormando wrote:
I'd actually recommend against running multiple instances if possible.
Having larger instances makes multiget's more efficient, and causes
fewer roundtrips.
If it doesn't work to simply list a server multiple times, those clients
should be fixed.
At one point, I patched the Enyim memcached client to support a "weight"
parameter in the server config, so you specified an integer that
represented the "weight" of a server, and the hashing algorithm took
that into account when generating hashes for the server (so a server
with a weight of 10 would get ten times as many hashes as a server with
a weight of 1).
It worked really well, because you basically just set the weight to the
number of MB/GB of memory assigned to memcached on that server.
Unfortunately, I don't have the patch anymore, since we're now running
identical servers and I didn't need it, but it was pretty simple :-)
Dean.
