It doesn't. You can work around this a little by specifying a server
multiple times in your server list. So a 2G machine gets listed once,
while a 12G machine could get listed 6 times.
-Dormando
Mark Maunder wrote:
Is it sensible to have different cache sizes across multiple servers
running memcached. I have one machine with 16GB of memory not doing much
and I could use 12GB for memcached. My other servers have 2GB available
for memcached. Will it include memory size in it's decision on where to
store stuff? Or does it simply load share evenly across all machines and
if one out of three servers runs out of memory then a third of new data
won't be cached?
This faq entry seems to suggest that the hashing algorithm doesn't take
into account how much cache is available on each server:
http://www.socialtext.net/memcached/index.cgi?faq#how_does_memcached_work
Thanks,
Mark.
