Fragment caching with Memcached slow?

big mac wrote:

Hi,

I am trying to do fragment caching using :mem_cache_store. However, when I compare it to fragment caching using :file_store, it seems to be a lot slower.

Here are the results:

uncache Completed in 2.20246 (0 reqs/sec) | Rendering: 2.19891 (99%) | DB: 0.00017(0%) | 200 OK [ http://127.0.0.1/\]

using file_store Completed in 0.00952 (105 reqs/sec) | Rendering: 0.00702 (73%) | DB: 0.00000(0%) | 200 OK [ http://127.0.0.1/\]

using memcache Completed in 0.03558 (28 reqs/sec) | Rendering: 0.02561 (71%) | DB: 0.00000(0%) | 200 OK [ http://127.0.0.1/\]

Other Notes: - I've tried using both Ruby-MemCached0.4 and memcache-client libraries and the results are about the same. - I am sure there is no paging.

Memcached execution parameters: memcached -m 256 -l 127.0.0.1 -p 11211 -vv

ldd /usr/local/bin/memcached results:         linux-gate.so.1 => (0x0036a000)         libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x0088e000)         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00870000)

My environment: uname -a Linux 2.6.14-1.1656_FC4 #1 Thu Jan 5 22:13:22 EST 2006 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

I'm stumped. Isn't it memcache store should be faster than file store since there is no disk access? Would somebody be able to explain?

Thanks, Mac

Hi,

That s a bit old post, but today I got the same. I have plenty of RAM, use memcached gem and whatever I do, I can't go over 185 r/s with mem_cache_store and go to 205 r/s with file_store. Every thing is on a single freebsd machine, and I dont understand how file storage can be faster than memory. Some other tests show memory_store is 10x faster on rendering.

Anyone could help me to find the light ?

thanks,