What is your pageview velocity? There's really no good reason you should be seeing intermittent failure and having timeouts that high will impact your pageload performance.
As was mentioned, if you're seeing behavior like this you ever have serious network or server hardware/configuration issues independent of memcached. On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Snehal Shinde <[email protected]> wrote: > switched to 4 secs now. also if its a packet loss issue will it make sense > to reduce the $retry_interval from the default 15 secs to say 2 secs? > http://us2.php.net/manual/en/memcache.setserverparams.php > > also the error that i get intermittenly is "COULD NOT CONNECT TO SERVE". Is > there a way to find out more? why it was not able to connect? If I restart > the memcached with -vvv option, will it give a lot more details in the error > message? just trying to find a way to get more info > > snehal > > > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 11:21 AM, dormando <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On Mon, 12 Jul 2010, Snehal Shinde wrote: >> >> > I am using the stable 2.x one. I have set the timeout to 3 secs now. >> Lets see how that goes >> > Snehal >> >> You might want to stick with 2 or 4 seconds to test :) putting it right on >> the line with the SYN timeout will still give you inconsistent results... >> > >
