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install and integrate memcached in drupal

Hi Every one, If performance is the issue for your Drupal site then one thing you are missing is memcache. This article explains you step by step process to install and memcache and how memcache helps to boost your drupal website. What is memcache ? Memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load. Memcached's magic lies in its two-stage hash approach. It behaves as though it were a giant hash table, looking up key = value pairs. Give it a key, and set or get some arbitrary data. When doing a memcached lookup, first the client hashes the key against the whole list of servers. Once it has chosen a server, the client then sends its request, and the server does an internal hash key lookup for the actual item data. For example, if we have clients 1, 2, 3, and servers A, B, C: Client 1 wants to set key "foo" with value "barbaz&