Henrik,
You mean you haven't had the memcached hash chip implanted in your head yet?
Give me a call, I'll recommend a brain surgeon to correct this defect
immediately ;)

Josef

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 6:46 AM, Henrik Schröder <[email protected]> wrote:

> I know it's deterministic, but it's effectively random because you cannot
> predict which server a certain item goes to by looking at its key, unless
> you're the kind of guy that can calculate the hashcode of a string in your
> head. :-)
>
>
> /Henrik
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 21:59, Jason Rimmer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>>  Given a list of servers a client will place data on a single server
>> via key-specific algorithmic determination rather than randomly.  This
>> ensures that when presented with the same key a request for retrieval
>> is made from the same/correct server.  This also enables getting and
>> setting by different clients, such as between java and perl as long as
>> they use the same algorithm for determination (this also presumes a
>> shared understanding of the type/structure/whatever of the associated
>> value).
>>
>> See the following FAQ entry for more detail:
>> http://code.google.com/p/memcached/wiki/FAQ#How_does_memcached_work?
>>
>> ---
>> Jason Rimmer
>> jrimmer at irth dot net
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Leeladharan MP <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> <snip>
>> > On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 9:07 PM, Henrik Schröder <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi Leelu,
>> >>
>> >> No, you're going up entirely the wrong tree with your solution. In your
>> >> client, you configure a list of servers that it should use. When you
>> then
>> >> use that client, it will distribute items randomly between the servers
>> you
>> >> put in the configuration. You can not control which specific server an
>> item
>> >> goes to in that case.
>> </snip>
>>
>
>


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