Lock on Memcache

[Cantor, Scott]

On 10/24/14, 8:11 AM, "Jose Celestino" <japc at co.sapo.pt> wrote:
>
>I'm trying to debug some performance issues, that I think are related to
>a 
>lock on some memcache functions on memcache-store.cpp, namely
>getMemcache().
>
>What's the rationale for those locks? Is it because of thread safe issues
>with libmemcached? Because otherwise it makes little sense, at least in
>our 
>scenario where we have a shibd per server, and the local locking gets
>somewhat lost in the server farm bigger picture.

No idea, I didn't write the code. I would assume thread safety would be a
likely reason, but I don't use memcache, so I have no idea how the library
works.

-- Scott