We'd love to be able to store an infinite amount of data in redis with large datasets -- that would let us use it at Posterous in ways that are beyond how we use it now -- which is mainly for analytics and job queueing (via resque)
thanks for the comment rantfoil. The more I talk to people about this issue the more I think virtual memory is the first thing to do. I'll start working on VM this Xmas, really hope to have it pretty solid in three months.