memcached is a general-purpose distributed memory caching system developed by Danga Interactive and licensed under the BSD license. The latest stable version is memcached 1.4.4. Version 1.4 adds needed features. Here are two briefly introduced:
1. Memcached has always had a cache object size limit of 1M. Starting from version 1.4, you can configure the upper limit of the cache object size through commands. Can be configured via parameter -I
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-I Override the size of each slab page. Adjusts max item size
(default: 1mb, min: 1k, max: 128m)
For example
memcached -I 128k # Refuse items larger than 128k.
memcached -I 10m # Allow objects up to 10MB
2. Start supporting 64-bit operating systems
For an introduction to memcached, please refer to the article memcached and Grails on the IBM website, Part 1: Installing and using memcached. For usage on Windows, please refer to the Quick Start Guide for Using Memcached in an ASP.NET Environment.
Download memcached 1.4.4 Windows 32-bit binary or memcached Windows 64-bit pre-release