diff --git a/conf/autoload_configs/memcache.conf.xml b/conf/autoload_configs/memcache.conf.xml
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+<configuration name="memcache.conf" description="memcache Configuration">
+  <settings>
+    <!-- comma sep list of servers: eg:  localhost,otherhost:port,anotherone -->
+    <param name="memcache-servers" value="localhost"/>
+  </settings>
+</configuration>