[Labs-l] memcached is broken

[Platonides]

On 20/02/12 19:37, John Du Hart wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Platonides <platonides at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Although if it's intalled on just one server for itself, it could be
>> desired to run it on localhost (as in marmontel, the host serving
>> blog.wikimedia.org).
> 
> But then what's the point of having memcache anyway? You could do
> without the networking overhead and just use APC shared memory.

No gain. I suspect it's there so that memcached could be seamlessly
moved to a different server, or perhaps the blog software doesn't
support APC but accepts memcached.