Yes, Memcache uses LRU to expire elements:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memcached

Romain, this stands for "Least Recently Used" and refers to Memcache
automatically throwing items out of the cache if they have not been
written/read and the space is needed. What this essentially means is that
you won't ever have an "out-of-memory" error.

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Romain Pelisse <[email protected]> wrote:

> Computer science is full of acromym, that are sometimes badly translated.
> If were you i'elle explain what you are thinking of by LRU.
>
> Le 30 avr. 2010 20:02, "keyurva" <[email protected]> a écrit :
>
>
> Can someone confirm or refute if the MemcacheService is LRU or not?
> I'm looking to implement a sliding expiration within the memcache
> service but if it is already an LRU then I don't need to bother.
>
> Thanks,
> Keyur
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