Top "Memcached" questions

Memcached is a simple distributed object cache that caches information in memory, and can be used to improve the performance of dynamic web applications by reducing access time and database load.

What's the best serialization method for objects in memcached?

My Python application currently uses the python-memcached API to set and get objects in memcached. This API uses Python's native …

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Is Memcache recommended when using MongoDB?

I would like to know if Memcache is recommended when using a NoSQL database like mongoDB.

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FastCgi vs PHP-FPM using Nginx web server

I am using this tutorial to install nginx, php and mysql on my new web server. The tutorial is using …

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PHP: Measure size in kilobytes of a object/array?

What's an appropriate way of measure a PHP objects actual size in bytes/kilobytes? Reason for asking: I am utilizing …

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Check if a key exists in Memcache

How do I check in PHP if a value is stored in Memcache without fetching it? I don't like fetching …

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Session VS File VS Memcache for a Cache in PHP?

I have a social network The users table is around 60,000 rows The friends table is around 1 million rows (used to …

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Rails.cache error in Rails 3.1 - TypeError: can't dump hash with default proc

I running into an issue with the Rails.cache methods on 3.1.0.rc4 (ruby 1.9.2p180 (2011-02-18 revision 30909) [x86_64-darwin10]). The …

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what are pagecache, dentries, inodes?

Just learned these 3 new techniques from https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/87908/how-do-you-empty-the-buffers-and-cache-on-a-linux-system: To free pagecache: # echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/…

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How do you choose between Memcached, Redis and Varnish?

I am really very confused about Memcached, Redis and Varnish. I know they are used for caching, but I don't …

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Simple Java caching library or design pattern?

I need to frequently access the result of a time-consuming calculation. The result changes infrequently, so I have to recalculate …

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