引用
http://www.danga.com/memcached/
If a host goes down, the API re-maps that dead host's requests onto the servers that are available.
http://cn.php.net/manual/zh/function.Memcache-addServer.php
Failover may occur at any stage in any of the methods, as long as other servers are available the request the user won't notice. Any kind of socket or Memcached server level errors (except out-of-memory) may trigger the failover. Normal client errors such as adding an existing key will not trigger a failover.