Strange memcached behavior on stress test

[Janning Vygen]

Am Sonntag, 11. Juni 2006 21:01 schrieb Stephen Woodbridge:
> Debian 32bit Sarge with a HUGEMEM kernel patch and 6 GB of memory and 1
> GB configured for memcached. I grew to about 1.5 GB then started
> throwing the errors.

if you configured memcache with -m 1024 how can memcached grew to 1.5 GB??
I thought that -m is the memory limit:

-m <num>
              Use <num> MB memory max to use for object storage; 

kind regards,
janning