settings.maxconns not working ?

[Bastiaan Naber]

Hi,

First of all thanks for creating memcached, it has helped me relieve some (not 
all unfortunately) strain of my MySQL database. I use it for my website, 
www.mobstar.cc an online RPG, which has some intensive database work.Our site 
serves several million pages a day and each and everyone connects to the 
memcached server.

I have been wanting to use persistant conections but I seem to run out of them 
all the time no matter what command line '-c xxxx' I start memcached with. 

I am looking at the source and I see in the main routine that  
settings.maxconns is set to the value of the command line argument -c but I 
cannot find out where this setting is used. 

Can anyone help me with this ? 

The stats from memcached for the total connection in 2 days gives me this:

STAT total_connections 72519822

I hope persistant connections give me some extra performance.

Thanks,
Bastiaan Naber