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Scaling Facebook To 140 Million Users

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the that's-a-lotta-load dept.

1sockchuck writes "Facebook now has 140 million users, and in recent weeks has been adding 600,000 new users a day. To keep pace with that growth, the Facebook engineering team has been tweaking its use of memcached, and says it can now handle 200,000 UDP requests per second. Facebook has detailed its refinements to memcached, which it hopes will be included in the official memcached repository. For now, their changes have been released to github."

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  1. Re:I have been wondering for a while... by n_are_q · · Score: 0, Troll

    LOL, what the %$^$ is a hierarchical page pinning algorithm? You're a troll. Only thing that uses linux at myspace is the media processors and servers, and nothing uses mysql.