Yeah, default is 1.25. We can certainly start with 1.25.

Thanks again,

Tony Wu

> On Nov 12, 2020, at 4:09 PM, dormando <dorma...@rydia.net> wrote:
> 
> what's the default? you probably don't need to change it from the default
> at all, which should have a good spread. default is 1.25 I think.
> 
> On Thu, 12 Nov 2020, Tony Wu wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> The engine version we have running right now is 1.5.16. I just saw an
>> announcement that 1.6.6 is available, so we’ll probably plan to migrate.
>> 
>> Adjusting growth factor makes sense. I did a quick google and don’t see
>> any definitive formula to calculate an appropriate number. I’ll probably
>> start with 2 or 3 and adjust it from there.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Tony Wu
>> 
>>> On Nov 12, 2020, at 3:50 PM, dormando <dorma...@rydia.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 1.5.what?
>>> 
>>> also yes, chunk_size_growth_factor. don't set it to 1.02. set it to
>>> something so your slab classes are more evenly distributed. the max is 63.
>>> 
>>> On Thu, 12 Nov 2020, Tony Wu wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi Dormando,
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks for the reply, I believe the engine version is 1.5. By multiplier
>>>> I assumed you meant “chunk_size_growth_factor”, which is currently set
>>>> at 1.02.
>>>> 
>>>> Best,
>>>> 
>>>> Tony Wu
>>>> 
>>>>> On Nov 12, 2020, at 2:26 PM, dormando <dorma...@rydia.net> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> What version are they running now? That stat output looks pretty sparse.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Unfortunately when it comes to elasticache the answer is probably to just
>>>>> beg them to upgrade to a newer version. they tend to run really old and
>>>>> newer verisons do a lot better at balancing memory.
>>>>> 
>>>>> This is also suspect:
>>>>>> STAT 62:chunk_size 712
>>>>>> STAT 62:total_chunks 4416
>>>>>> STAT 62:free_chunks 631
>>>>>> STAT 62:free_chunks_end 0
>>>>>> STAT 63:chunk_size 524288
>>>>> 
>>>>> anything you store that's larger than 712 bytes will use half a megabyte
>>>>> of memory. If you're setting the slab multiplier (-f) to something really
>>>>> aggressive, you should stop that :)
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Thu, 12 Nov 2020, Tony Wu wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> We are currently using memcached provided by AWS ElastiCache service in 
>>>>>> modern mode to store web session keys
>>>>>> among other things. We are observing session keys being evicted before 
>>>>>> TTL even though the cluster seems to have
>>>>>> ample free memory, which hints at slab imbalance. I've included a print 
>>>>>> out of slab stats below in terms of
>>>>>> sizing and total / free pages.
>>>>>> What would be the best way to smooth out this imbalance? We already 
>>>>>> enabled slab reassign / auto-move under
>>>>>> modern mode.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>> 
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>>>>>> STAT 1:free_chunks 1664
>>>>>> STAT 1:free_chunks_end 0
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>>>>>> STAT 2:free_chunks 5327
>>>>>> STAT 2:free_chunks_end 0
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>>>>>> STAT 3:free_chunks 79
>>>>>> STAT 3:free_chunks_end 0
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>>>>>> STAT 4:free_chunks 48
>>>>>> STAT 4:free_chunks_end 0
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>>>>>> STAT 5:free_chunks 6193
>>>>>> STAT 5:free_chunks_end 0
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>>>>>> STAT 6:total_chunks 23130
>>>>>> STAT 6:free_chunks 4594
>>>>>> STAT 6:free_chunks_end 0
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>>>>>> STAT 7:free_chunks 5894
>>>>>> STAT 7:free_chunks_end 0
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>>>>>> STAT 8:free_chunks 12008
>>>>>> STAT 8:free_chunks_end 0
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>>>>>> STAT 9:free_chunks_end 0
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>>>>>> STAT 10:free_chunks_end 0
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>>>>>> STAT 11:free_chunks_end 0
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>>>>>> STAT 15:free_chunks_end 0
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>>>>>> STAT 16:free_chunks_end 0
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>>>>>> STAT 17:free_chunks_end 0
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>>>>>> STAT 18:free_chunks_end 0
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>>>>>> STAT 52:chunk_size 552
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