It's the latter on saving physical ports & servers. Best, Steve
On Oct 20, 4:32 am, Karl Harbour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm a little confused by the "What about shared memory?" section > here: > > http://www.danga.com/memcached/ > > In particular, it says: "it's recommended you run both web nodes and > memcached processes on the same machines. This way you'll save network > ports." > > How does doing this save network ports? Is this referring to TCP/IP > socket ports (i.e. as in HTTP on port 80?) Isn't the point of > memcached that the cache is global across all machines, so each web > node uses the memcached server on all the other web nodes? > > If each web node only used the local memcached (not the right thing to > do?), then I can see how you save network ports. Otherwise, it seems > to me you are using the same number of ports, just on different nodes > than if you ran memcached on dedicated nodes. > > Does it mean you are saving physical ports on the switch/router, > because you have fewer servers (why not just say you need fewer > servers then?) > > Would be grateful if anyone can shed any light on this for me! > > -- > Karl Harbour
