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Asked: 2010-03-29 20:05:54 +0800 CST

How to install memcache on Ubuntu Hardy?

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How do I install and configure memcache on ubuntu hardy?

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    memcached is the package you want:

    Description: A high-performance memory object caching system
 Danga Interactive developed memcached to enhance the speed of LiveJournal.com,
 a site which was already doing 20 million+ dynamic page views per day for 1
 million users with a bunch of webservers and a bunch of database servers.
 memcached dropped the database load to almost nothing, yielding faster page
 load times for users, better resource utilization, and faster access to the
 databases on a memcache miss.
 .
 memcached optimizes specific high-load serving applications that are designed
 to take advantage of its versatile no-locking memory access system. Clients
 are available in several different programming languages, to suit the needs
 of the specific application. Traditionally this has been used in mod_perl
 apps to avoid storing large chunks of data in Apache memory, and to share
 this burden across several machines.

    Installation

    Just make sure universe is enabled and run apt-get install memcached.

    Configuration

    In /usr/share/doc/ are several documents you should read on memcached as deployed by Debian packaging. In particular, README.Debian:

    Memcached has two logical uses in this package, a system daemon that can be run from the standard /etc/init.d/ interface, or one that can be run from userland from a the command line such as /usr/bin/memcached -d

    The former has been setup to run through the start-memcached script, reading in the configuration from /etc/memcached.conf. The start-memcached script ignores certain parameters as discussed in the configuration file itself.

    The latter is the binary as provided by Danga, and reads in options from the command line, ignoring the Debian-specific configuration file entirely.

      --Jay Bonci
  [email protected]

    Reading the postinst script, it should run by default: update-rc.d memcached defaults >/dev/null

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