Hey Brian, could you please elaborate more on consistent hashing, is there any algorithm or standard practise available to follow in a case where we need to add server, without/close-to-negligible remapping of keys?
Thanks. -sag On Feb 2, 10:00 pm, Brian Aker <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > On Jan 28, 2010, at 10:06 PM, nEosAg wrote: > > > 1. If i changed my Hashing policy to "consistent" then what will be > > the impact on code, memecache Data etc. > > pecl/memcache uses CRC/modular, while libmemcached by default will use > "one-at-a-time"/Modula by default. If you switch to crc then the two > libraries should be compatible. The CRC is based on the code found in > Postgres. > > If you use "consistent" then the two will not map at all (well... by chance). > > Cheers, > -Brian
