curr_items never decreases

[Brad Fitzpatrick]

On Thu, 18 May 2006, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:

> Yeah, we have been looking at it. Items should be available for about 7
> days in the cache. Nothing breaks catastrophically if it leaves sooner,
> but clients session are no longer available and they will need to create
> a new session. We are happy to size it for this, but I would like to get
> it close initially and would like to know how much more I need to add to
> get it right as load expands the demands on the cache.

Jumping in at the wrong point of the thread, but:

Telnet to your memcached and type:

"stats items"

For each slab class (sized 2**n), the number and oldest age in that class.

Enjoy!

Brad