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Memcache to use disk storage?

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Can Memcache be configured to use disk storage instead of RAM ?

I am running Memcache Server on High IO Amazon EC2 instance. The instance has 2TB of SSD storage available. Can I configure Memcache to use the SSD storage to store the cache contents ?

Thanks

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Santhosh S Avatar asked Oct 01 '12 05:10

Santhosh S

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Twitter just released their Memcache on SSD, named fatcache

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Hossein Avatar answered Sep 24 '22 16:09

Hossein

As far as I know this does not work. But there are alternatives as pointed out here: memcached-like key/value cache that uses both RAM and disk

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Kai Mattern Avatar answered Sep 23 '22 16:09

Kai Mattern

instead of memcache you could use redis witch write on disk and will use your ssd.

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BlaShadow Avatar answered Sep 22 '22 16:09

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