Have you ever wondered how optimized your Memcached installation is? There is a common misconception that one doesn't have to think too deeply about Memcached performance, but that is not true. If your setup is inefficient, you could:
- Burn Memory
- Waste Network Round-Trips
- Store Keys That Never Get Retrieved
- Have a Low Cache Hit Ratio (i.e. query MySQL too much)
- Suffer a fate too horrible to contemplate.
Percona does a lot of consulting around Memcached, so we try to take a quantitative, scientific approach to measuring memcached performance, just like everything else we do.
memcached is basically a key-value in-memory database, so it works well to analyze its traffic with Maatkit's mk-query-digest tool. You can now use …
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