On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 4:26 PM, dormando <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> I am trying to do some scalability analysis (scaling the number of clients) >> for Memcached. >> Is there any available benchmark for such experiments ? >> >> Also, I am curious to know about the number of clients that a memcached >> server can service in a typical deployment. >> By default, the number of connections is 1K. I was wondering how this will >> be in a real world deployment scenario. >> >> Any insights/suggestions will be of great help. > > How many do you want it to run? After a point you have to start tuning > your OS kernel to reserve less RAM per TCP connection, but it'll scale to
Which parameter is that? > a great many (30,000+) pretty well. The default is 1k because it's based > off of the default file descriptor limit in linux-land, which is 1024.
