Hey Henrik, Yes, definitely it is completely situational. The disclaimers are political; if I push a product without a formal release and it fails (for any reason), then I have a hard time explaining why I did that. I didn't mean for that sound like I was speaking to how well they work, we didn't spend very much time with them.
We have hybrid windows / linux servers running hybrid web technologies and we already have Nagios and other monitoring tools available, so there are no reasons for us not to use a linux distribution. Agreed. To the point of utilizing existing idle memory, memcached has been a great product for us and has allowed us to reduce memory consumption and latency in page loads. Kevin On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 4:56 AM, Henrik Schröder <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > Well, about the disclaimers, they're there because there's no official > Windows release of memcached for Windows, so those of us who have put out > source or binaries put these disclaimers in them. That said, version 1.2.5 > and 1.2.6 for Windows work really, really well. > > Installing it on a Linux machine instead is fine if you already have some > of those lying around, and it allows you to easily get the latest and > greatest version of memcached. But the great thing about memcached is that > you can put it on any existing server that has spare memory, you typically > don't need a separate memcached cluster, and if you already have a bunch of > Windows-based webservers or similar, it'd be a shame not to use existing > hardware. > > > /Henrik > > > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 01:12, Kevin Amerson <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hey Jeremie, >> >> We experienced problems with the windows versions so we opted to use the >> latest release for linux and just did a yum install memcached. It is very >> easy and works right away. We didn't spend much time on the windows >> releases because they all have disclaimers attached to them. >> >> The .NET clients don't have any issues connecting up to the linux hosted >> services. >> >> If you would like to monitor them through a web application, just create >> another application and configure it to hit all of your memcached instances >> and print out the stat command results. >> >> Kevin >> www.theknot.com >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Jeremie Legault <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> >>> >>> We are considering using memcached for a .NET web based assessment >>> application currently in development. As you probably guessed we are a >>> Microsoft shop and originally tried running memcached on Windows Server 2003 >>> but encountered problems and we were concerned that it didn’t include a >>> management interface (although we tried one that was available and it didn’t >>> work with our configuration). We are considering Linux to host memcached but >>> would like to speak with anyone who has previous experience running >>> memcached to better understand how we can be prepared to build it into our >>> application. >>> >>> >>> >>> If anyone is available and would like to help, please call me at the >>> number below or email me at [email protected]. >>> >>> >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Jeremie Legault >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >
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