Hello,

I read somewhere that memcached is for huge sites with different database servers.

Would you recommend installing it on a VPS for example? Are there any benefits?

Also as I understand memcached stores stuff in memory, so is it a memory hug?

How much memory would it use from a 256 MB VPS?

Cheers,
G

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jeremy commented
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Yes, moving the cache from the database to memory is a big performance win if you have the memory. However, if this means that your database starts swapping because it doesn't have enough memory, then it will no longer be a performance win. No, memcache is not a memory hog, and you can configure how much memory you allocate for it -- you then should monitor the statistics to confirm that it has a high hit rate otherwise you'll see considerably less benefit from it. It is a good match for a VPS (which typically have slow Disk IO), so long as you have sufficient RAM.

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