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Re:Scaling memcached at Facebook by wmf on Friday December 12, 2008 @04:20PM (#396097)
Because we have thousands and thousands of computers, each running a hundred or more Apache processes, we end up with hundreds of thousands of TCP connections open to our memcached processes.

I guess using a single-process Web server would be too easy; it's practically cheating.

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Re:Scaling memcached at Facebook by look_lookatme on Friday December 12, 2008 @05:29PM (#396188)
Wow, you're a genius. Facebook should hire you.
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