From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-09-21T14:33:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Using Memcache client

On Sep 20, 2006, at 4:18 AM, hemant wrote:

> Some some simple/[stupid|smart] questions about memcache.
>
> I am using the wrapper written by Eric Hodel.
>
> 1.  Is it thread safe? By that I mean..lets say, I have one thread
> that writes to it and the other reads from it. How will it behave
> then. Please note that, only one thread will be used to write to
> it..rest all will just read. I see..mutex.synchronize in the code..so
> should be theoretically thread safe.

Some of the documentation lies, but, see: ri MemCache.new

> 2. I start a program, connect to the server using MemCache.new on  a
> new namespace and do some data manipulation. Then i don't need to
> close the connection, right? Do i need to delete the keys that i put?
> or they will expire.

Don't worry about it, memcached will take care of the stored data for  
you.  Ruby's GC will take care of closing connections for you.

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