Max number of concurrent updates for a same key at same time in memcache.

2014-10-21 Thread Shashank Sharma
Hi all, Reading memcache documents its clear that it can handle a very heavy load of traffic. However I was more interested in knowing the bound on how may updates for a specific key at the same time can memcache handle. -Shashank -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: Max number of concurrent updates for a same key at same time in memcache.

2014-10-21 Thread dormando
Internally, there's a per-item lock, so an item can only be updated by one thread at a time. This is *just* during the internal update, not while a client is uploading or downloading data to the key. You can probably do several thousand updates per second to the same key without problem (like