there a way to check how much ram us being used for caching? Vs overall. Were using ruby's memcache-client. MemCache#stats gives some stats but it seems to be the same as what ps aux tells us.
On Mar 18, 10:50 am, Dustin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 18, 10:39 am, Perrin Harkins <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Dustin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > It doesn't try very hard to reuse memory when it hasn't allocated as > > > much as you've given it. > > > Sure, and I'm guessing it's not religious about making sure don't go > > over the limit even a fraction, but there should be no significant > > growth past the limit you set, right? And if you store more data at > > that point, it should drop old data to make room for it rather than > > growing. > > The memory limits you give it are specifically how much memory it's > allowed to use for cache. It will use additional memory for > connections (in my tree on my system, that's 300 bytes each) and > miscellaneous buffers (e.g. when you do stats, the response is > buffered in a new allocation. > > Some of that can actually reuse slab memory, but it doesn't > currently.
