From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2009-09-15T00:24:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Pre-allocate large amount of memory?

On Sep 14, 2009, at 8:32 AM, Carsten Gehling wrote:

> Jason Stewart wrote:
>> You could probably just use memcached. It's optimized for efficient
>> memory allocation of hash based data stores.
>
> I thought of that too. But doesn't memcached expire its data after a
> while? Or is it possible to disable that?

You might consider using Redis:

   http://code.google.com/p/redis/

It definitely doesn't have to expire keys.  That's an optional feature.

I'll be posting a series of articles to my blog this week about using  
it from Ruby, one each morning:

   http://blog.grayproductions.net/articles/using_keyvalue_stores_from_ruby

James Edward Gray II