Posted by karimb on March 4, 2010 at 6:33pm
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In this group many people recommend using the memcache module for authenticated users. But what does exactly this module? Putting the core cache tables in memory? Or something else?
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And what’s the difference between using memcache.inc or memcache.db.inc?
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Is there is a good doc for using memcached with Drupal?
Thx a lot.
Karim

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I highly recommend taking a
I highly recommend taking a look at the Cache Router and Authcache modules...
http://drupal.org/project/cacherouter
http://drupal.org/project/authcache
For those that are wondering about the multi-instance of memcached setup (it really created a huge performance boost for larger Drupal sites), I am attaching the modified init file [based on RedHat/CentOS/Fedora] and the settings.php modifier for combining both Authcache and Memcache API together.
Multi-instance of memcached setup
http://drupal.org/node/495478#comment-1819338