Re: Memcache in multiple servers

2011-02-07 Thread Margalit Silver
A few more questions we have: 1) How does memcached deal with a change in IP of a server? Does that invalidate the whole cache in the same way as if I added or removed a server? 2) We are also concerned about the number of open apache connections on a machine at a given time. Currently we hav

Re: Memcache in multiple servers

2011-02-07 Thread Margalit Silver
1) I'm guessing your comment "fear of potential bottleneck" was referring to my comment ""not to have these servers bogged down in notifications". That isn't really our main concern. Our main concern because of which we are hesitant to go towards a full and proper implementation of memcache is

Re: Memcache in multiple servers

2011-02-07 Thread Margalit Silver
the other servers to invalidate cache on a DB write. Please let me know if we went wrong in our understanding somewhere. Any tips or thoughts are greatly appreciated. Thanks. On Feb 3, 10:02 pm, Jason Sirota wrote: > On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Dustin wrote: > > > On Feb 3, 2

Re: Memcache in multiple servers

2011-02-07 Thread Margalit Silver
Thank you for your responses. In the last several days we have gotten a much better understanding of memcache in general and how we use it. A little more background to help you understand the current state: We have 4 live servers that are all supposed to be identical. Our code is in PHP. W

Memcache in multiple servers

2011-02-03 Thread Margalit Silver
Our system has 4 live servers on a load balancer in an Amazon Cloud. We are using memcached but don't understand it very well, previous programmers implemented it. Any user that goes to our site will be using one of the 4 live servers and all are supposed to be in sync and have the same data. We