Difference between django-redis-cache and django-redis for redis caching with Django?

I am currently using django-redis as cache backend for Redis. I haven’t used django-redis-cache so far, but what made me take the decision to use django-redis are the following: Modular client system (pluggable clients). Some of the pluggable clients come out of the box (shard client, herd client, etc.) Master-Slave support in the default client. … Read more

How do you know if memcached is doing anything?

You could use the official perl script: memcached-tool 127.0.0.1:11211 stats Or just use telnet and the stats command e.g.: # telnet localhost [memcacheport] Trying 127.0.0.1… Connected to localhost. Escape character is ‘^]’. stats STAT pid 2239 STAT uptime 10228704 STAT time 1236714928 STAT version 1.2.3 STAT pointer_size 32 STAT rusage_user 2781.185813 STAT rusage_system 2187.764726 STAT … Read more