memory allocation, does memcached play fair ?

2009-06-10 Thread tbs
Hi, I would like to use memCache and MySQL to handle PHP sessions in a live environment. Unlike most of the examples out there that employ write-through caching, our sessions change greatly from page view to page view, so write-through would not help and I will be using write- back caching. I am

Re: memory allocation, does memcached play fair ?

2009-06-10 Thread tbs
On Jun 10, 2:55 pm, Brian Moon wrote: > > The memcached server will sit on the same box as the MySQL server. > > Given that on any given machine MySQL will try and take as much memory > > as it can, does the invocation of memcached, with a memory allocation > > that exceeds the available memory

Re: memory allocation, does memcached play fair ?

2009-06-15 Thread tbs
David, Thank you for the well thought out reply to my post, I agree with a lot of what you said. Our current session handler is actually using NFS over RAID on a NAS, however we are finding that due to our particular requirements (retain session data indefinitely, unless the session file becomes

Re: memory allocation, does memcached play fair ?

2009-06-15 Thread tbs
supported in CentOS by default). Fortunately I was not responsible for that messup, as it happened before I joined.! I'll let you know how it goes, when Jmeter slams my new memCache/write- back/MySQL solution Richard > On Jun 15, 2009, at 10:00 AM, tbs wrote: > > > > > David