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=== Server Restart Sequence ===
When an installation employs <tt>memcached</tt>, it is important to follow this sequence when restarting servers:
# Stop all application Servers
# Stop all memcached servers
# Start all memcached servers
# Start all application servers

;Considerations:
:* Stopping application servers ensures that they aren't adding entries to the cache.
:* Stopping memcached makes sure that the cache is flushed.
:* Those two steps can occur in either order. It is the next two for which order is critical:
::* Restarting memcached first makes sure that a clean copy of the cache is available when the application server comes up.