On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Jake McGraw wrote: > Whats your data size like? How many requests per second do you plan on > handling?
Its a very big site. Last year, we handled a total of 945 million page views. And we expect those numbers to go up of course :-) > a relational database to a key/value store (memcache is nice, > personally, I'm becoming a big fan of Redis) is to set up a single > instance and see how it handles the load. Yes, my thoughts exactly. (BTW, I also looked at Redis earlier today, but I have yet to see a comparison with memcache). Any thoughts? > For example, with modern > hardware, value look up from a single, untaxed instance of memcache > should take around 1ms. At a certain point, based almost entirely on > traffic, that'll go up. When it gets to an undesirable level, throw in > another memcache instance and hash the keys to spread the load (or > allow your memcached client to hash the keys for you). Continue this > until some other bottleneck rears its head. We know where the bottle necks are, so right now its a case of selecting some solutions to test with. -- Aj. _______________________________________________ New York PHP User Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
