Re: [tlug] memcached / alternatives

[Christian Horn <chorn@example.com>]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 11:31:21AM +0900, Miles Colman wrote:
> I have attached local and remote 'free' output, which shows that our local
> postprocessing machine is caching things, but remote isn't. Also, remote
> has been up 149 days with a load average of 1.07, mostly doing the same
> postprocessing tasks as me, so I think there is no shortage of stuff to put
> in memory.

Indeed, much unused memory at the remote.


> I haven't yet done anything with varnished, redis, or memcached. Does
> anyone have an opinion about which one will offer the best performance with
> the least set up? I can follow detailed tutorials, but I'm not so good
> about leaping over gaps in tutorials or reading through manpages.

Havent used these, for fast testing without efforts for setup you could
also store things in /dev/shm - that will also end up in memory.

Christian