Comment 3 for bug 1076148

So that goal of this bug report was to alert folks of a problem that users of OpenStack Swift might run into, namely that servers that don't keep in sync can result in attempts to cache something in memcache to silently fail.

One way to avoid that is to use deltas, which has been rejected, but instead of always using absolute times in the memcached client, would it not be possible to use deltas for values under 30 days, and use absolute times over 30 days?

If that is not acceptable, could we at least add note of warning in the docs for memcache in the configuration tables that the proxy-server host needs to be kept in sync with the memcached hosts?

Thanks for considering.