I love memcacheD. It's just plain cool. It and wikipedia would go great with
a dual G5 1.2Ghz X-Serve with 4GB RAM don't you think? Ahhhh dreams.
With some beefed up hardware and the break that memcached would give the DB
we might be able to start turning on things like special pages and
maintenance pages again, not to mention the search. If wikipedia ever got
really huge and had a bank acct with lots of money i think one of those
google search appliances would be really slick. Those features like spelling
suggestions and matching mispeelings make all the difference some times.
Is it just me or does it seem just like yesterday when hard drives were
still measured in megabytes, ram ammounts rarely went into double digits and
processor speeds were measured in double digit megahertz?
--------- Original message --------
From: "Erik Moeller" <erik_moeller(a)gmx.de>
To: "wikitech-l(a)wikipedia.org" <wikitech-l(a)wikipedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Memcached
Date: 08-09-03 02:13
Brion-
At the moment we don't exactly have a lot of free
memory floating around
Larousse seems to still have about 400 megs free, pliny 885, that is, used
by Linux for caching, but Linux always grabs as much as it gets for
caching -- that doesn't mean it has any substantial effect. For example, I
have 640 MB of RAM, "free" tells me that 620 are used -- but minus
buffers/cache, only about 200 MB are used.
Using an application-optimized cache like memcached would be orders of
magnitude more efficient than relying on Linux' kernel-based caching.
Regards,
Erik
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