On Feb 11, 2008 4:55 PM, Stut <stuttle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Per Jessen wrote: > > On the next request, LVS will know not to try that server, and the user > > will move to another one. Obviously the session-context will die, but > > is that really a big deal? How often does one of your servers die? > > Sure, if you've got 10,000 in a cluster, you'll have fans and harddisks > > pop every so often, but I have my doubts about memcached scaling to > > that level (please correct me if I'm wrong here, I have _no_ experience > > with memcached). > > Facebook. when i was in dc at the conference last year, there were several speakers from facebook. they claimed they have (had) 400 servers w/ 4TB of memory at on the memcache tier. -nathan
