> What I am seeing is that when my memcached container hits around 10MB > of written traffic is starts to bottleneck causing my front end > systems to slow WAY down. I've turned on verbose debugging and see no > issues and there are no complaints on the front end stating that the > connection clients are not able to hit memcached. > > Has anyone seen anything like this before? > > I would appreciate any feedback that could help out with this.
Lower the threads down to 4 or 8 or so. It's rare that it needs adjusting. Things we'd like to know: - your version of memcached - how many queries/second you run - stats output usually helps have you gone through this page yet? http://code.google.com/p/memcached/wiki/Timeouts then there's this: http://code.google.com/p/memcached/wiki/NewServerMaint
