We had a fun time this week with TokyoTyrant. Recently it has become apparent that MemcacheDB has been all but abandoned. As fantastic as the early work was by Steve Chu, the project is in disrepair. That, coupled with the less than obvious failover for its replication combined to make us seek alternatives.
So a few days ago, my big mean MySQL server started having problems that were very hard to explain. It was slowing down, taking a minute to run queries that usually take a few seconds, and Linux load averages were in the teens, despite having quiet disks (less than 0.1% cpu IO wait time) and plenty of RAM (128G for about 200G of data total…).
The developers were stumped. The other systems guys were stumped. So was I. But it still seemed ok. We found all sorts of things to point fingers at, but nothing made sense.
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I don’t remember exactly how I found memcachedb, however, it is one of those projects that somebody else beat me to the punch in writing. I mean, it was going to happen, as the need was there. Steve Chu, the author, did a great job of melding two open source projects, BerkeleyDB, and memcached, to produce something really very powerful
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