Is nginx able to work with multiple memcached servers?

[Tyler Kovacs]

Oliver Weichhold <lists at ...> writes:
> Is nginx able to work with multiple memcached servers and therefore
> correctly hashes the key to pick a server from the cluster?

By default, nginx will round-robin requests to multiple backend memcached
servers - which is probably not the behavior you want.

Evan Miller implemented an optional module which hashes the key to pick a server
from the cluster.  You can read about it here:

http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxHttpUpstreamRequestHashModule