Source: memcached Section: web Priority: optional Maintainer: Chris Lamb Build-Depends: adduser, debhelper-compat (= 13), libevent-dev, libio-socket-ssl-perl , libsasl2-dev, libssl-dev, pkgconf, Homepage: https://memcached.org/ Standards-Version: 4.7.0 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/lamby/pkg-memcached Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/lamby/pkg-memcached.git Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: memcached Architecture: any Pre-Depends: ${misc:Pre-Depends}, Depends: adduser, lsb-base, perl, ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, Suggests: libanyevent-perl, libcache-memcached-perl, libmemcached, libterm-readkey-perl, libyaml-perl, Description: High-performance in-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.