caching primitives useful in common scenarios

2011-12-06 Thread daveb
I've been investigating using memcached for an upcoming project, and I'm a little surprised there's not a race-free way to guarantee that just a single process implements an expensive (to-be-cached) computation. The fundamental things are that (1) getting the responsibility for the expensive

Re: caching primitives useful in common scenarios

2011-12-06 Thread dormando
I'm surprised how little I can find on this topic... references to the stampeding problem (which is resolved by using get_locked) are about all the info I can find. Sorry in advance if i'm missing some earlier discussion - i've searched quite a bit and can't find anything about it. Are

Issue 239 in memcached: Memcached Parable Cartoon location has changed

2011-12-06 Thread memcached
Status: New Owner: Labels: Type-Defect Priority-Medium New issue 239 by gwa...@gmail.com: Memcached Parable Cartoon location has changed http://code.google.com/p/memcached/issues/detail?id=239 What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Enjoy Memcached Parable. 2. See link to