Re: [tlug] memcached / alternatives

[Edward Middleton <edward.middleton@example.com>]

On 01/17/2013 04:46 PM, Miles Colman wrote:
> Hi TLUG,
> I wrote earlier about SSDs, but I should have asked a simpler question.
>
> I read a little bit about linux's automatic caching of files that are
> regularly accessed, but it seems to be turned off at my company. At
> least, most of our systems show free memory in the performance monitor
> (and 'in use as cache' shows up there). Should I dive right in to
> memcached to try and cache files and see if things are faster? or is
> there something else I should look at first?

If you are going to look at memcached I would look at varnishd[1], or 
redis[2].

1. https://www.varnish-cache.org/
   http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1814327
2. http://redis.io/

Edward