curr_items never decreases

[Brad Fitzpatrick]

seconds.


On Thu, 18 May 2006, john allspaw wrote:

> Thanks Brad.  I am enjoying, for sure.   This is exactly how I size up squid memory and disk caches.
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> BUT: age has what units, tho ?
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> -j
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Brad Fitzpatrick <brad at danga.com>
> To: Stephen Woodbridge <woodbri at swoodbridge.com>
> Cc: memcached at lists.danga.com
> Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 12:02:24 PM
> Subject: Re: curr_items never decreases
>
> On Thu, 18 May 2006, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
>
> > Yeah, we have been looking at it. Items should be available for about 7
> > days in the cache. Nothing breaks catastrophically if it leaves sooner,
> > but clients session are no longer available and they will need to create
> > a new session. We are happy to size it for this, but I would like to get
> > it close initially and would like to know how much more I need to add to
> > get it right as load expands the demands on the cache.
>
> Jumping in at the wrong point of the thread, but:
>
> Telnet to your memcached and type:
>
> "stats items"
>
> For each slab class (sized 2**n), the number and oldest age in that class.
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> Enjoy!
>
> Brad
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