Hey, This is usually done for two reasons:
1) 32-bit machines with PAE support for large RAM (12G+ system ram, individual processes limited in size) 2) Utilizing multiple CPU's with single threaded mode. These days either of these are pretty rare. If you have a huge box go ahead and run memcached in threaded mode. -Dormando Shayan Ghazizadeh wrote: > Hi everybody, > > In multiple presentations I have seen Brad talk about running multiple > instances of memcached on "high-end" boxes. I was wondering what are the > benefits of doing so? > > We have two boxes with 12G of RAM and 8 processors each that host our > memcache cluster running one instance of 64bit memcached. Is this a good > idea? should we instead run multiple instances on each? what are the > pro/cons? > > Thanks, > Shayan > >
