Memcached is a caching system that aims to speed up web applications by reducing loads. We will require RPM forge to make PHP available.

* Start with the package installation –

wget http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-*.rpm
rpm –install rpmforge-release-*.rpm

* yum install –enablerepo=rpmforge memcached

* MemCached is now installed. In order to test it, you can try the following –

memcached -m 512 -u nobody -vv

* Start Memchached daemon. Please make a note, that it does not have a configuration file. it only has command lines to follow –

./memcached -d -m 2048 -l 10.0.0.40 -p 11211 -u nobody

The above lines starts with 2GB RAM from IP to the port.

-m – Amount of memory in MB
-l – IPs to be watched
-p – Port

You can also set it up as a caching Memory server

Installation of PHP MemCache Extension –

* cd /files/download/
* wget http://pecl.php.net/get/memcache-2.1.2.tgz
* tar -xvf memcache-2.1.2.tgz
* cd memcache-2.1.2
* phpize && ./configure –enable-memcache && make
* Now you can copy memcache.so to the default directory
* vi /etc/php.ini
* Add – extension=memcache.so
* /etc/init.d/httpd restart
* phpinfo() will now show Memcache

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