On another note, there's the matter of dumping one server at a time, when you might have data scattered across many memcached servers.
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Dustin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Dec 29, 11:45 am, blazah <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Agreed -- this is most likely the case, which is why I doubt we'd ever > > need to dump the cache contents. It is something that is desired, > > however, so I'm trying to see how feasible a cache dump is to do. > > It's generally considered a very bad thing and it's very difficult > to conceive of a way to do it that wouldn't be horribly detrimental to > the performance of the server, so it's not something anyone's > considering doing without a *really* good use case. > > > What other tests/diagnostics are typically run for memcached? I saw > > that you developed a test suite using Python (http://github.com/dustin/ > > memcached-test/tree/master) -- Are there tests available that are > > written in Java? Any other troubleshooting suggestions? > > My java client has a pretty good test suite: > > http://github.com/dustin/java-memcached-client -- "If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern." Ursula K. Le Guin http://www.finsel.com/words,-words,-words.aspx (My blog) - http://www.finsel.com/photo-gallery.aspx (My Photogallery) - http://www.reluctantdba.com/dbas-and-programmers/blog.aspx (My Professional Blog)
