[Labs-l] Memcached issues on piramido

Wed Jan 30 21:37:12 UTC 2013

On 30/01/13 22:09, Asher Feldman wrote:
> That message actually means that memcached is working.  The messages
> keys used as locks are added via the memcached add call, which only
> returns successfully if the key doesn't already exist.  That could not
> acquire lock message means that the key already exists, the "lock" is
> already held and the work associated with it being done by another process.

There is another option: memcached is down and the lock cannot be
created, but nobody holds it, either.

What is piramido (an instance, a project, a software...) ? What process
is giving you that error, Matthew? Maybe it isn't working correctly with
the locks.