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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. fixed by spazmolytic666 · · Score: -1, Troll

    s/users/viruses/ig

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    Help! I've fallen in a karma hole and I can't get up!
  2. Re:[Unintelligible] Facebook [Unintelligible] by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Funny, that, because everyone and everything that relates to speaking English disagrees with you. Just because you want the language to be that of a computer doesn't make it so. It's one hundred and forty million. Note the 'and' and lack of 's' on million, and LEARN HOW TO TALK LIKE A HUMAN BEING.

  3. 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.

  4. Re:... And Yet Very Lacking From a Security Angle by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    the word you're looking for is "interstitial"