I'm trying to ab test a PHP app to compare the performance of disk cache and memcache (client/server details at end). I realize the win32 ports are unsupported, but any assistance would be appreciated.
During each connection I'm only doing a single get for a 16K binary item (some gzipped content).
With short bursts of connections (400 concurrent requests) memcached behaves fine (though quite a bit slower than disk reads).
When I lengthen the test to 1000 requests and run this a few times (3 or 4 seconds of break between), memcached stops accepting connections during the 3rd or so run. With every 20th request I'm logging the stats['curr_connections'] and it never gets above 150 or so. In fact, even with no concurrency, around 800 requests in the client stops connecting and then needs some time to breathe...
I had identical results this morning on another XP box with similar setup. Any ideas on how I can investigate this? Should I chalk this up to "immature Win32 port"?
If I set up a VM w/ Linux + memcached, will I be able to connect to it from Windows?
PHP 5.2.6 / Apache 2.2.9 / WinXP PHP memcache client 2.2.4-dev R1.99 memcached 1.2.4 Win32 beta (9/3/2008) limit 1024 connections / 64MB http://www.splinedancer.com/memcached-win32/ -- Steve Clay http://mrclay.org/
