Package: libmemcache0 (1.4.0.rc2-1)

C client API for memcached memory object caching system

memcached optimizes specific high-load serving applications that are designed to take advantage of its versatile no-locking memory access system. Clients are available in several different programming languages, to suit the needs of the specific application. Traditionally this has been used in mod_perl apps to avoid storing large chunks of data in Apache memory, and to share this burden across several machines.

Danga Interactive developed memcached to enhance the speed of LiveJournal.com, a site which was already doing 20 million+ dynamic page views per day for 1 million users with a bunch of webservers and a bunch of database servers. memcached dropped the database load to almost nothing, yielding faster page load times for users, better resource utilization, and faster access to the databases on a memcache miss.

This package contains the shared libraries (C client API) for memcached. If you are looking for a Perl client API, please see the libcache-memcached-perl package.

 Homepage: http://people.freebsd.org/~seanc/libmemcache/

Tags: Role: Shared Library