Source: memcached Section: web Priority: optional Maintainer: Guillaume Delacour Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 10), libevent-dev, libsasl2-dev, adduser, autotools-dev, dh-autoreconf Homepage: http://www.memcached.org/ Standards-Version: 4.1.3 Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/memcached.git Vcs-Git: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/collab-maint/memcached.git Package: memcached Architecture: any Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, perl, ${misc:Depends}, lsb-base (>= 3.2-13), adduser Suggests: libcache-memcached-perl, libmemcached, libanyevent-perl, libyaml-perl, libterm-readkey-perl Description: high-performance memory object caching system Danga Interactive developed memcached to enhance the speed of LiveJournal.com, a site which was already doing 20 million+ dynamic page views per day for 1 million users with a bunch of webservers and a bunch of database servers. memcached dropped the database load to almost nothing, yielding faster page load times for users, better resource utilization, and faster access to the databases on a memcache miss. . memcached optimizes specific high-load serving applications that are designed to take advantage of its versatile no-locking memory access system. Clients are available in several different programming languages, to suit the needs of the specific application. Traditionally this has been used in mod_perl apps to avoid storing large chunks of data in Apache memory, and to share this burden across several machines.