The article was intended to convey two things: 1) For IMVU users who may not be web server gurus, give a peek into what goes into building a large, 24/7 websit

The article was intended to convey two things: 1) For IMVU users who may not be web server gurus, give a peek into what goes into building a large, 24/7 website. 2) For those who already know memcached, provide some data on load capability for comparison and amusement. This particular memcached is running an ancient version of Debian on a three year old dual-Xeon 1U box, and it is using TCP. (This is different from many users who move to UDP, to get more throughput but more loss) The main tuning happens in the switches, where we attempt to have sufficient capacity to avoid packet loss except under the absolutely worst load transients. I'd love to see other similar data from other sites, btw!