> This morning, for about 12 minutes I experienced a period where my memcached > instance was not allowing me to set/add anything. Upon checking the > memcached.log file I found "Failed to write, and not due to blocking: Broken > pipe" > Memcached: 1.4.13 > Server: RHEL 5 > Client: PHP Memcache > Runs on VMWare > > I have searched far and wide for a half decent answer to this and I can't > find anything. I am on the 5th page of my Google search with the best hint > being that it is the network getting bogged down. I would love it if I could > diagnose that or repeat the issue but I don't know how.
http://memcached.org/timeouts ? Your clients were getting disconnected for some reason (broken pipe). could've been a lot of things.
