Posted on April 19th, 2011 at 08:34 PM by Corey Ballou
You may or may not be aware, but PHP has two separate module implementations wrapping the memcached (as in memcache daemon) server.
The memcache module utilizes this daemon directly, whereas the memcached module wraps the libMemcached client library and contains some added bonuses.
Both modules have built-in support for session handling, which can be specified in your php.ini file using session.save_handler = memcache[d].
You may see speed improvements if you decide to go with the full-blown install of the memcached module. The primary reason for this would be it’s use of the igbinary PHP extension; a drop in replacement for PHP’s serializer. There is currently a 2.0 beta (RC1) with a number of goodies. more »
