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[Sandy Walsh <sandy.walsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks ... that's good feedback and we were discussing cache
invalidation issues today.

Any tips or suggestions?

-S



On 03/22/2012 09:28 PM, Joshua Harlow wrote:
> Just from experience.
> 
> They do a great job. But the killer thing about caching is how u do the
> cache invalidation.
> 
> Just caching stuff is easy-peasy, making sure it is invalidated on all
> servers in all conditions, not so easy...
> 
> On 3/22/12 4:26 PM, "Sandy Walsh" <sandy.walsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>     We're doing tests to find out where the bottlenecks are, caching is the
>     most obvious solution, but there may be others. Tools like memcache do a
>     really good job of sharing memory across servers so we don't have to
>     reinvent the wheel or hit the db at all.
> 
>     In addition to looking into caching technologies/approaches we're gluing
>     together some tools for finding those bottlenecks. Our first step will
>     be finding them, then squashing them ... however.
> 
>     -S
> 
>     On 03/22/2012 06:25 PM, Mark Washenberger wrote:
>     > What problems are caching strategies supposed to solve?
>     >
>     > On the nova compute side, it seems like streamlining db access and
>     > api-view tables would solve any performance problems caching would
>     > address, while keeping the stale data management problem small.
>     >
> 
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