On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 4:43 AM, Anand <[email protected]> wrote: > We have one big server that serves our rails web application. > > I'm new to using memcached and I'm planning to use it for storing session > data, I mean as a session store. What happens if memcache consumes too much > memory? Should I monitor the memcached process now and then and restart it?
As it is a cache, you want it full all the time. As much data is in the cache the more chances you have to have a cache hit. > Or, can I set memory limits for it so that it won't exceed the allocated > space? > > You can configure the amount of memory memcached will allocate. Please note the difference between a cache and a datastore before making the decision to use memcached. Good luck
