If it’s static content then it will be cached in memory by default (unless there isn’t any memory left), just not by nginx, but OS – all that will be left disk-side will be stat(). If you want 100% memory solution you can just configure ramdisk and serve data from there.
You did not tell us about your OS/distro. Also, you did not tell us how you installed memcached. Usually, you will get a sample config file under /etc/ when you install memcached using apt-get under debian-based systems and rpm or yum under redhat, fedora or centos. If you installed it from source, you may not … Read more
I use Ubuntu, and Debian mostly, so this answer is based on those, but I suspect the answer for other distros is largely the same. In /etc/memcached.conf — If it’s not in exactly the same place, a) I’d be surprised, and b) you could find it with locate # Start with a cap of 64 … Read more