diff -rup memcached-1.2.1/items.c memcached-1.2.1-cachestats/items.c
--- memcached-1.2.1/items.c     2006-12-05 10:34:10.000000000 +0100
+++ memcached-1.2.1-cachestats/items.c  2007-03-20 17:03:07.000000000 +0100
@@ -94,6 +94,8 @@ item *item_alloc(char *key, size_t nkey,

         for (search = tails[id]; tries>0 && search; tries--, search=search->prev) {
             if (search->refcount==0) {
+               if (search->exptime > current_time)
+                       stats.evictions++;
                 item_unlink(search);
                 break;
             }
diff -rup memcached-1.2.1/memcached.c memcached-1.2.1-cachestats/memcached.c
--- memcached-1.2.1/memcached.c 2006-12-05 10:34:10.000000000 +0100
+++ memcached-1.2.1-cachestats/memcached.c      2007-03-20 17:03:44.000000000 +0100
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ rel_time_t realtime(time_t exptime) {

 void stats_init(void) {
     stats.curr_items = stats.total_items = stats.curr_conns = stats.total_conns = stats.conn_structs = 0;
-    stats.get_cmds = stats.set_cmds = stats.get_hits = stats.get_misses = 0;
+    stats.get_cmds = stats.set_cmds = stats.get_hits = stats.get_misses = stats.evictions = 0;
     stats.curr_bytes = stats.bytes_read = stats.bytes_written = 0;

     /* make the time we started always be 2 seconds before we really
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ void stats_init(void) {

 void stats_reset(void) {
     stats.total_items = stats.total_conns = 0;
-    stats.get_cmds = stats.set_cmds = stats.get_hits = stats.get_misses = 0;
+    stats.get_cmds = stats.set_cmds = stats.get_hits = stats.get_misses = stats.evictions = 0;
     stats.bytes_read = stats.bytes_written = 0;
 }

@@ -761,6 +761,7 @@ void process_stat(conn *c, token_t* toke
         pos += sprintf(pos, "STAT cmd_set %llu\r\n", stats.set_cmds);
         pos += sprintf(pos, "STAT get_hits %llu\r\n", stats.get_hits);
         pos += sprintf(pos, "STAT get_misses %llu\r\n", stats.get_misses);
+        pos += sprintf(pos, "STAT evictions %llu\r\n", stats.evictions);
         pos += sprintf(pos, "STAT bytes_read %llu\r\n", stats.bytes_read);
         pos += sprintf(pos, "STAT bytes_written %llu\r\n", stats.bytes_written);
         pos += sprintf(pos, "STAT limit_maxbytes %llu\r\n", (unsigned long long) settings.maxbytes);
diff -rup memcached-1.2.1/memcached.h memcached-1.2.1-cachestats/memcached.h
--- memcached-1.2.1/memcached.h 2006-12-05 10:34:10.000000000 +0100
+++ memcached-1.2.1-cachestats/memcached.h      2007-03-20 16:55:21.000000000 +0100
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ struct stats {
     unsigned long long  set_cmds;
     unsigned long long  get_hits;
     unsigned long long  get_misses;
+    unsigned long long  evictions;
     time_t        started;          /* when the process was started */
     unsigned long long bytes_read;
     unsigned long long bytes_written;