memory fragmentation issues in 1.2?

[Steven Grimm]

It's possible, but IMO unlikely, that this is memory fragmentation. What 
do your requests look like? How many client connections are open at a 
time? Each client connection has some buffer space for incoming 
requests, and if you have a lot of clients that can add up to a fair bit 
of memory, especially if your application does very large multi-key 
"get" requests. Based on our experience that's what I'd say you're most 
likely running into; we see our memcached instances exceed their 
configured memory limits but it always stabilizes once they've reached a 
certain size.

That said, please try 1.2.1 and see if you see the same problem.

-Steve


George Schlossnagle wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm seeing some weird behavior on my memcached 1.2 instances.  Overtime
> the RSS of my processess is growing and growing.  I start out at around
> 800M (my configured memory size), and it monotonically grows (over a
> period of a couple weeks) until it is over double that size and gets
> killed by the OOM killer.
>
> Trying to duplicate this behavior under valgrind hasn't been very
> fruitful, which makes me suspect it's system memory fragmentation.
>
> Has anyone else seen this sort of behaviour?  Is there some likely EBKAC
> that I might be engaging in that could cause this?  I have some ideas
> for working around this, but I'd much rather just be told I'm stupid. :)
>
> George
>