In message <CA+=j5hwstogwrofhtmpfpgwtr6ypeojkgvpd5vpr22of8nv...@mail.gmail.com> , Joe Prosser writes: >On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 8:27 PM, John P. Rouillard <rou...@cs.umb.edu> >wrote: >> <CA+=j5hv1ydmjipteyju9ppbimufpayaq0wdjmomm17i46iv...@mail.gmail.com> , >> Joe Prosser writes: >>>Has anyone thought of or built an SEC installation with the contexts >>>saved on a memcached server? >>>This strikes me as a possibly good way to address scalability >>>challenges if you can get past lack of atomicity. >> >> By scalability I assume you mean running multiple SEC proceses on one >> or more hosts (to use multiple cpu/cores/memory) and have them all >> share the same pool of contexts. >> >> One thing that concerns me is that memcached is a cache tool and not a >> permanent storage tool IIRC it can evict things from cache (which I >> think would lose a context). > >I'm exploring it. I'm accessing memcached from sec now for external >data and it sure seems fast.
One other thing to look at may be membase. It's memcached married to a persistant data store. Some of the memcached people work on it as well and it's supposed to be wire protocol compatible with memcached. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard =========================================================================== My employers don't acknowledge my existence much less my opinions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy2 _______________________________________________ Simple-evcorr-users mailing list Simple-evcorr-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/simple-evcorr-users