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[Gary Poster <gary.poster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 04/09/12 10:20, Deryck Hodge wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 8:24 AM, Gary Poster<gary.poster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > On 04/06/12 03:40, Stuart Bishop wrote:
> > > On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 3:51 AM, Gary Poster<gary.poster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >   wrote:
> > > > I'm seeing these pretty consistently on parallel test runs.  It seems to
> > > > affect both test environments.  I filed bug 974632.
> > >
> > >
> > > Have we considered dropping Memcached? Last I heard, it was only being
> > > used on the front page for cached statistics. For this sort of use, we
> > > could easily replace the IMemcache implementation with something with
> > > less moving parts (simple table in PostgreSQL, global dictionary per
> > > appserver, no storage at all - do we actually gain much with the
> > > cache?). The interface was deliberately simple to allow us to do just
> > > this if Memcached didn't suit our needs.
> >
> >
> > It would be fine by me, but since Brad and Graham seem to have found the
> > solution to this particular problem, dropping memcache is out of scope for
> > my squad right now.
>
> What was the solution?
>
> Cheers,
> deryck

https://bugs.launchpad.net/python-memcached/+bug/974632/comments/1

and

https://code.launchpad.net/~bac/python-memcached/bug-974632/+merge/101148

It needs to be incorporated into LP code still.  Brad is trying to get a 
response from upstream, and if we don't soon (I'm not sure what "soon" 
is; I told Brad a maximum of five days and a minimum of zero and left it 
to him), we'll do the fork-branch-make-egg dance and release it locally.

Gary