X-Git-Url: https://git.m6w6.name/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=docs%2Fmemcached_behavior.pod;h=e5058de353efa627bce1a0e453cd53bb2a71f732;hb=03aebaf09b3ff6bb719798f451b5edf07307e46f;hp=296988e5ac6fd627b17a590d061a32c06bf7c833;hpb=1a9c3c48878ad91b2403f8a74f9032686ea5246b;p=m6w6%2Flibmemcached diff --git a/docs/memcached_behavior.pod b/docs/memcached_behavior.pod index 296988e5..e5058de3 100755 --- a/docs/memcached_behavior.pod +++ b/docs/memcached_behavior.pod @@ -40,7 +40,9 @@ memcached_behavior_set() will flush and reset all connections. =item MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_NO_BLOCK Causes libmemcached(3) to use asychronous IO. This is the fastest transport -available. +available for storage functions. For read operations it is currently +similar in performance to the non-blocking method (this is being +looked into). =item MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_TCP_NODELAY @@ -51,6 +53,26 @@ environments). Makes the default hashing algorithm for keys use MD5. The value can be set to either MEMCACHED_HASH_DEFAULT, MEMCACHED_HASH_MD5, MEMCACHED_HASH_CRC, MEMCACHED_HASH_FNV1_64, MEMCACHED_HASH_FNV1A_64, MEMCACHED_HASH_FNV1_32, MEMCACHED_HASH_FNV1A_32, MEMCACHED_HASH_KETAMA. The behavior for all hashes but MEMCACHED_HASH_DEFAULT is identitical to the Java driver written by Dustin Sallings. +=item MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_DISTRIBUTION + +Using this you can enable different means of distributing values to servers. +The default method is MEMCACHED_DISTRIBUTION_MODULA. You can enable +consistent hashing by setting MEMCACHED_DISTRIBUTION_CONSISTENT. +Consistent hashing delivers better distribution and allows servers to be +added to the cluster with minimal cache losses. + +=item MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_CACHE_LOOKUPS + +Memcached can cache named lookups so that DNS lookups are made only once. + +=item MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_SUPPORT_CAS + +Support CAS operations (this is not enabled by default at this point in the server since it imposes a slight performance penalty). + +=item MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_POLL_TIMEOUT + +Modify the timeout value that is used by poll(). The default value is -1. An signed int pointer must be passed to memcached_behavior_set() to change this value. For memcached_behavior_get() a signed int value will be cast and returned as the unsigned long long. + =back