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		hackerboos on Sept 26, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Clarifications about Redis and Memcached Last time I looked Redis would balk if it ran out of memory whilst memcached just pushed out the oldest caches. I guess that's not a problem anymore..?

skuhn on Sept 26, 2015 [–]

By changing the eviction policy and using the maxmemory directive, you can effectively reproduce memcached's behavior in redis.

http://redis.io/topics/lru-cache

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