Expiration Behavior

[Timo Ewalds]

>> There was talk of adding a new statistic to capture information about
>> the number of items pushed from cache before their expiration time;
>> that would also give you the same information.
>>
>> I'm not sure if there was a patch for that, or if it is in the 
>> current release.
>>
That stat is in 1.2.2 if I'm not mistake, and it will indeed tell you if 
you don't have enough space, but it won't tell you if you have too much, 
and could be using that ram for other purposes.

> Would it be possible to force a discard of the LRU on all inserts, 
> regardless of memory used if the LRU is expired?
>
> If your dataset to cache is "only" 10GB, and expires after 1 hour, 
> then on a 30GB memcached install it would only use ~10GB of memory, 
> rather than all 30GB with ~20GB of stale data. Is that a fair assessment?
That would likely slow down memcache quite significantly, which I would 
rather avoid. By making it a command to be used only very very rarely 
while the slowness of it is irrelevant, it shouldn't affect the runtime 
performance at all.

Timo