Cache entry size limit?

[Brad Fitzpatrick]

Yes, there's a 1MB limit.

- Brad

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Garrett, Philip (MAN-Corporate) wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 21:31:27 -0500
> "Michael Alan Dorman" <mdorman at debian.org> wrote:
> >
> > "Garrett, Philip (MAN-Corporate)" <Philip.Garrett at cox.com> writes:
> > > Is there a size limit to individual cache entries in memcached?  My
> > > memcached server is choking on sizes slightly smaller than 1 megabyte.
> >
> > I think the output you reproduced shows your limit at, um, 12MB?
> >
> > > STAT limit_maxbytes 134217728
>
> Actually, it's 128 MB.
>
> > You might try increasing the memory allocated to memcached; it uses a
> > slab allocator, and while this is resistant to fragmentation in the
> > presence of many relatively small objects, with large objects it can
> > result in unfortunate amounts of wasted memory.
>
> I still have the same trouble, even when giving memcached 256 MB.  By the
> way,
> there are *no* other entries in the cache at this point.
>
> STAT limit_maxbytes 268435456
>
> <4 set key1 0 0 1048535
> >4 SERVER_ERROR out of memory
>
> <4 set key1 0 0 1048534
> >4 STORED
>
> Is there a ~1MB limit on cache entries?
>
> Thanks,
> Philip
>
>