Tom Lane wrote: > Dave Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I can't imagine Flickr or Slashdot ... > > I'm pretty sure I remember reading that Slashdot had to put enormous > amounts of cacheing in front of their DB to keep it from falling over > on a regular basis.
Yes, slashdot and flickr both use memcached: http://lists.danga.com/pipermail/memcached/2005-November/001726.html "...we use both memcached and squid at flickr. ..." http://lists.danga.com/pipermail/memcached/2003-July/000017.html "...Slashdot's been using memcached to serve its comment text" ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq
