http://blog.fedecarg.com/2008/12/24/memcached-consistent-hashing-mechanism/ Simple is better than complex. Complex is better than complicated. | @fedecarg Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:52:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://blog.fedecarg.com/2008/12/24/memcached-consistent-hashing-mechanism/#comment-2114 Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:26:56 +0000 http://phpimpact.wordpress.com/?p=980#comment-2114 Thanks for the link :)
So sounds like the keys that are “missing” if a server is down or removed, will just get remapped.

]]> http://blog.fedecarg.com/2008/12/24/memcached-consistent-hashing-mechanism/#comment-2113 Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:40:20 +0000 http://phpimpact.wordpress.com/?p=980#comment-2113 A good post explaining its usage has been posted by http://www.last.fm/user/RJ/journal/2007/04/10/392555

]]> http://blog.fedecarg.com/2008/12/24/memcached-consistent-hashing-mechanism/#comment-2105 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:53:31 +0000 http://phpimpact.wordpress.com/?p=980#comment-2105 I was wondering about this!
So… if a Memcached server goes down, and you are looking for the key that was cached to it, it just won’t find it? Or if you are trying to save a key and the hashing algorithm wants to place it to a dead server?

]]> http://blog.fedecarg.com/2008/12/24/memcached-consistent-hashing-mechanism/#comment-1985 Thu, 25 Dec 2008 10:18:50 +0000 http://phpimpact.wordpress.com/?p=980#comment-1985 [...] blog has a recommendation for those using the memcache functions in their PHP applications – be sure your hashing strategy [...]

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