Is nginx able to work with multiple memcached servers?

Server NGINX
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Is nginx able to work with multiple memcached servers and therefore
correctly hashes the key to pick a server from the cluster?

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I am running one instance of nginx with 18 memcached servers. Not
using hashing though since my application doesnt distribute load that
way.

Cheers
Kon

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Oliver Weichhold <lists@…> writes:

Is nginx able to work with multiple memcached servers and therefore
correctly hashes the key to pick a server from the cluster?

By default, nginx will round-robin requests to multiple backend
memcached
servers - which is probably not the behavior you want.

Evan M. implemented an optional module which hashes the key to pick
a server
from the cluster. You can read about it here:

http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxHttpUpstreamRequestHashModule

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Tyler K. wrote:

Oliver Weichhold <lists@…> writes:

Is nginx able to work with multiple memcached servers and therefore
correctly hashes the key to pick a server from the cluster?

By default, nginx will round-robin requests to multiple backend
memcached
servers - which is probably not the behavior you want.

Evan M. implemented an optional module which hashes the key to pick
a server
from the cluster. You can read about it here:

http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxHttpUpstreamRequestHashModule

Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.