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mikey_p
on Oct 13, 2010
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Why Reddit's been slow lately (dev group post)
Here's your sign: "7s of that was waiting on memcached."
If memcache is slower than your DB, you're doing something wrong.
Confusion
on Oct 14, 2010
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I don't think you've just told them something new. The problem is figuring out what 'something' is.
woadwarrior01
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There usually is a point where you're pushing so much down memcache's throat that the cycles spent pickling and unpickling data in python becomes significant.
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If memcache is slower than your DB, you're doing something wrong.