Caching Solutions
Here is a good comparison between the features of NCache and Appfabric
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AppFabric Caching – Proper use of DataCacheFactory and DataCache
Here is the answer from the forum post: Hi. Sorry for the delayed response, but I want to say that these are great questions and will probably be useful to others. There shouldn’t be a need for more than one DataCacheFactory per thread unless you are requiring different configurations. For example, if you programmatically configure … Read more
MS Velocity vs Memcached for Windows?
We have done recently a fair amount of comparing of Velocity and Memcached. In the nutshell, we found Velocity to be 3x – 5x slower than Memcached, and (even more crucially) it does not have currently support for a multi-get operation. So at the moment, I would recommend going with Memcached. Also, another lesson we … Read more
AppFabric doesn’t recover well from restart
In short the answer is no. The time a cluster takes to restart increases as you add extra nodes which leads me to believe that it is a node synchronisation process that takes the time. The exception your seeing is indeed the appfabric node entering a throttled state. It will enter the throttled state depending … Read more
AppFabric installation failed because installer MSI returned with error code : 1603
I had a similar problem 9/21/2012 11:28:01 AM EXEPATH=powershell.exe PARAMS=-command “$str = [System.Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable(\”PSModulePath\”, [System.EnvironmentVariableTarget]::Machine); $str = $str+\”;c:\Program Files\AppFabric 1.1 for Windows Server\PowershellModules\”; c:\Windows\system32\setx.exe /M PSModulePath \”$str\”” LOGFILE=C:\Users\XXXXXXX\AppData\Local\Temp\AppServerSetup1_1_CustomActions(2012-09-21 11-27-26).log Error: ERROR: Invalid syntax. Default option is not allowed more than ‘2’ time(s). Error: Type “SETX /?” for usage. My issue was the PSModulePath having an improper … Read more