If you see it again, please send the list the information I requested below :) The slab class starvation issue was solved a while ago, as far as I know, by preallocating the slabs. I haven't hit it at all in a long time.

-Dormando

Jeremy Blain wrote:
I've seen this happen in the past as well, but forgot about it till now.
Bouncing the server also fixed it.

My not very thorough looking about seemed to suggest the cache had
allocated all it's slabs already to certain sized objects, and it wanted
to store the current object in a slab that had chunks of sizes that
didn't exist.




Matt Knox wrote:

The problem seems to have gone away on bouncing memcache, and we can't
replicate it, even though we started memcache in exactly the same way,
on the same machines.  We'll probably make 3 1Gb instances instead of
the 3G instances if it recurs.
thanks for the help!

matt


On Nov 11, 2007 9:06 PM, dormando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:

    *pulls old mail out of garbage*

    Curious if you're still having this issue? If it's been fixed/etc? I
    didn't see any noise on the list about it since.

    Matt Knox wrote:
    > I consistently get an out of memory error when performing  < 44
    byte
    > (key+data) puts to memcache, but when 'put'-ing the same key
    with data
    > that is long enough to exceed 44 chars key + data  , I succeed.  I
    > observe this behavior using both the ruby client
    (memcache-client 1.5)
    > and the python one (python-memcached), although the python
    client seems
    > to break at 59 chars, rather than 44.

    Spiffy! Can't reproduce it on a 64-bit host. Haven't tried 32-bit.

    > I'm running memcached 1.2.2 with the following options:
    >
    > memcached -d -p 11211 -u nobody -c 1024 -m 3072
    >
    > The offending servers are recent CentOS running 3G of cache each on
    > 32-bit boxes with 4G ram-if it matters, I can get details about
    these.

    I suspect that's a big deal. The maxbytes limit doesn't include random
    buffers that are used for connections, stats commands, this and
    that. So
    you'll be apt to bowl over the 32-bit address space. I've never
    trusted
    that the different splits even work.

    So, if you are still having this issue:

    - How'd you build memcached?
    - Exactly what version of centos?
    - Does it happen after memcached has been up for a long time, or
    immediately?
    - Does it still happen if you lower the -m option to 1.6-1.8
    gigabytes?

    Thanks,
    -Dormando





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