Re: [google-appengine] Many memcache hits are returning null

2011-03-31 Thread Nischal Shetty
Alright, thanks I'll keep that in mind :) -N On 31 March 2011 10:55, Nick Johnson (Google) nick.john...@google.comwrote: The limit depends on a number of factors, and isn't fixed. You shouldn't rely on your app having a specific amount of memcache space available - treat it like a cache, and

[google-appengine] Many memcache hits are returning null

2011-03-30 Thread nischalshetty
Calls to retrieve objects stored in the memcache are returning null. My app uses a lot of memcache and I had read some time back that there is a certain limit on the amount of data that can be cached overall by an app. Can someone from the appengine team look into this? -- You received this

Re: [google-appengine] Many memcache hits are returning null

2011-03-30 Thread Nick Johnson (Google)
Hi, Memcache, as the name implies, is a cache. You can't rely on data existing in memcache, as it may be evicted at any time. -Nick Johnson On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:13 PM, nischalshetty nischalshett...@gmail.comwrote: Calls to retrieve objects stored in the memcache are returning null. My

Re: [google-appengine] Many memcache hits are returning null

2011-03-30 Thread Nick Johnson (Google)
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Nischal Shetty nischalshett...@gmail.comwrote: @Nick I completely agree with you but I saw an elevated rate in the logs today which does not normally happen. Want to confirm if there's actually something like a memcache limit imposed on apps. I know there's a

Re: [google-appengine] Many memcache hits are returning null

2011-03-30 Thread Nischal Shetty
@Nick Can you disclose what the limit is? And if there's a way it can be increased? -N On 31 March 2011 09:10, Nick Johnson (Google) nick.john...@google.comwrote: On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Nischal Shetty nischalshett...@gmail.com wrote: @Nick I completely agree with you but I saw

Re: [google-appengine] Many memcache hits are returning null

2011-03-30 Thread Nick Johnson (Google)
The limit depends on a number of factors, and isn't fixed. You shouldn't rely on your app having a specific amount of memcache space available - treat it like a cache, and expect that data may disappear from it without notice. -Nick Johnson On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Nischal Shetty