Andrei,

No, this is fundamentally impossible with Memcache. Memcache values are
lazily expired at GET time. When you set an expiration on a Memcache item,
all you are really doing is telling Memcache to look at that timestamp
whenever a read operation takes place, throwing it away if it's past the
date.

Memcache is commonly used as a pass-through cache. Store the item in
Memcache as well as persistent store. If the item doesn't exist in Memcache
when you do a read, read it from the datastore and cache the item.

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Andrei <[email protected]> wrote:

> Are there plans to add notification for expiration?
>
> On Jan 18, 8:30 am, jd <[email protected]> wrote:
> > There is no event mechanism with memcache.  You would need to store
> > items in memcache and the datastore at the same time.  If memcache
> > doesn't have it check the datastore.
> >
> > On Jan 18, 4:44 am, Andrei <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > Is there a way to code Memcache that would notify when particular
> > > entry is about to expire
> > > so i can store it in DB?
> > > Thanks
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