On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Xaxo <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 23, 4:21 pm, Jeremy Dunck <[email protected]> wrote: >> In general, file-based makes sense if: >> * memory is at a premium >> * latency to other nodes is high >> * shared access to specific keys is easily partitioned to nodes >> * disk bandwidth dwarfs cache bandwidth > ...... >> If you have a lot of writes, disk is going to bottleneck before >> memory/network. > > file-based caching != disk based caching >
Well, OK, if you want to go that far, you could also use mogilefs or HDFS or many other not-really-files approaches. If you're using tmpfs, I guess that shows memory is not short-- you still have to serialize bits, so why not run a single memcached node local?
