I agree. We did that. The windows Server is a joke -- since it is currently limited to 64MB in Service mode (I'm sure this could be modified, but I don't have the time to find the magic key).
Further, the incessant reboots from Windows Updates was enough to make it worthwhile for us to get a Linux box. We did just what you suggested -- installed it on Ubuntu. We've got it set up for 3 GB, and it hasn't had to be rebooted in over a month. Since our application is caching Lat/Longs for Reverse Geocoding -- we don't have to worry that much about changing data -- our default TTL is 180 days. We are approaching an 80% hit rate. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ray Krueger Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 9:52 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Memcached 1.3 or above for windows. > I am using memcached in windows platform. > I am using memcached version 1.2.6. > The problem here is that I am not able to use BINARY_PROTOCOL option > with this server as it works with only server version 1.3 or above. > Appreciate if any body can send me the link to download memcached > server version 1.3 for windows. > I am also open for the subversion link to download and compile it. If you really want to run the latest and greatest edge stuff, you really should just stand up a linux box. It's dead simple to stand up an Ubuntu Linux box and run memcached. You can put that expensive Windows license to use elsewhere.
