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Tyler Clendenin
Asked: 2017-09-16 05:49:47 +0800 CST

Memcached doesn't seem to use RAM

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I am new to memcached but have installed and am using it for an application.

My application reports that it should have a few hundred thousand items cached, however memcached says it only has anywhere between 11k and 13k items. I also see many cache misses.

Here's my /etc/sysconfig/memcached file

PORT="11211"
USER="memcached"
MAXCONN="1024"
CACHESIZE="7GB"
OPTIONS=""

As you can see it should have 7 GB of RAM to work with, however I don't know if it ever goes above using 30 MB.

CentOS 7, Memcached version 1.4.15

Some relevant stats

STAT cmd_get 320529
STAT cmd_set 111654
STAT cmd_flush 0
STAT cmd_touch 0
STAT get_hits 258056
STAT get_misses 62473
STAT delete_misses 4
STAT delete_hits 11
...
STAT bytes 28758173
STAT curr_items 12385
STAT total_items 111654
STAT expired_unfetched 0
STAT evicted_unfetched 73714
STAT evictions 97315
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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    It seems my configuration was incorrect, I had CACHESIZE="7GB", I don't know why it didn't throw an error, but I don't think it accepts that format, so I changed it to CACHESIZE="7168" and things seem much better.

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