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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Hi
all, <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>I
have the following problem with memcached: I run it with certain memory limit,
let’s say <i><span style='font-style:italic'>–m 300</span></i> (300
Mb). In a few hours it reaches 370 Mb and continues to grow. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>When
I get stats from this instance, it shows max_available between 300 and 320 Mb,
and bytes_used about 220 Mb. What happens with the rest of memory?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Our
site works with memcached through PHP Memcache extension, in an array of 20
instances working together. It works with huge number of connections, so I
would suspect connection structures of eating the memory, but in times of
relatively low traffic, when connections get released, the memory is not.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>We
basically use version 1.1.12, but today I tried 1.2 and met the same problem. So
if it’s a bug in memcached, it wasn’t fixed. But maybe I just use
it the wrong way?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Maybe
somebody got the same problem? Or maybe you have any ideas about the cause of
this memory issue? We’re happy to use memcached, but with those memory
issues we have to restart it every few days and, naturally, lose all cache at
restart.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>I
will be grateful for any ideas, before I enter deep debugging…<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Olga.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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