Thanks for the reply. I would like to scale and see where the performance saturates. So, in a typical deployment, is 30-35K memcached clients (per server) possible ? Is it a common case ?
-- Jithin Jose http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~jose/ On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 7:26 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 > 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.
