I love memcacheD. It's just plain cool. It and wikipedia would go great with a dual G5 1.2Ghz X-Serve with 4GB RAM don't you think? Ahhhh dreams. With some beefed up hardware and the break that memcached would give the DB we might be able to start turning on things like special pages and maintenance pages again, not to mention the search. If wikipedia ever got really huge and had a bank acct with lots of money i think one of those google search appliances would be really slick. Those features like spelling suggestions and matching mispeelings make all the difference some times.

Is it just me or does it seem just like yesterday when hard drives were still measured in megabytes, ram ammounts rarely went into double digits and processor speeds were measured in double digit megahertz?

--------- Original message -------- From: "Erik Moeller" erik_moeller@gmx.de To: "wikitech-l@wikipedia.org" wikitech-l@wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Memcached Date: 08-09-03 02:13

Brion-

At the moment we don't exactly have a lot of free memory floating around

Larousse seems to still have about 400 megs free, pliny 885, that is, used by Linux for caching, but Linux always grabs as much as it gets for caching -- that doesn't mean it has any substantial effect. For example, I have 640 MB of RAM, "free" tells me that 620 are used -- but minus buffers/cache, only about 200 MB are used.

Using an application-optimized cache like memcached would be orders of magnitude more efficient than relying on Linux' kernel-based caching.

Regards,

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