Sorry to clutter up your journal with this, really, very sorry.

Is there some specific place I should report bugs? Support doesn't seem like the right place for some reason.

Any subset of:

1) support
2) http://zilla.livejournal.org/
3) lj_test comments
4) email to me

Just not here in my journal.

For whatever insane reason I want to take a crack at a PHP API. Maybe when I get some spare time tomorrow.

Your 'div inside pre' makes Opera leave premode before your code example, which is hardly ideal! ;)

You could either make it a span (since it's going to act like a block element in pre anyway) or move it just above, since it's at the top anyway and there's no real reason why that text has to be preformatted…

I think I'm going to have a bash at doing this for the .NET framework so it can be used from ASP.NET, unless someone else wants to do it. (I don't know if .NET has an equivalent of Serializable, or what it is, but the rest should be relatively easy)

Sure, a Windows web server using a Linux (or other) memcache is unlikely, but it would be funny.

# MySQL's query cache destroys the entire cache for a given table whenever that table is changed. On a high-traffic site with updates happening many times per second, this makes the the cache practically worthless.

Godalmightly. Everytime I take another look at MySQL I feel like I'm listening to snake oil hucksters.

You do know I'm talking about the query cache and not the buffer or index caches, right? MySQL's buffer and index caches don't do that.

If you think about it, it makes sense. The query cache is just a mapping of SQL queries to result sets. If you didn't invalidate them all, the query could return an incorrect result. Sure, you could partially invalidate the cache, but then the penalty for updates would be huge and negate the whole benefit.

I don't think you can blame MySQL here.

Let me check my notes...

I'll take a look at the API when I get home from work and maybe take a crack at a PHP api.

You mention use under Linux - any problems deploying on, or have you tested deployment on FreeBSD or Solaris?

I haven't. I'll probably put evan on that, though, making it build easily with autoconf and such.

All the dependent libraries are portable, and we do nothing fancy, so it should be portable.

I'm going to give it a shot over on FreeBSD, and see what happens over on Mac OS X. It's a different architecture, and not knowing jack or shite about memcached right now, I don't know if that makes a difference. ;)

Once it's up, telnet to it and type "stats", enter.

still need a java api?

I do.

If you want a reviewer/tester/helper as you go along, I'd love to be that person. I just can't lead the project.

i'm all over it.

Cool. Let's work over email.... brad@danga.com.