memcached and key lists

[Brad Oaks]

Mitchell,

If you would be willing to clear the contents of the cache, you could
restart the daemon in extra verbose mode and it would log all the keys
that are set (and retrieved) as it builds the cache again.  If you're
in a real pinch to find out what's using the cache, you might be
willing to do this.  But it is a brutish way to accomplish your goal.
Also be careful to not let the log of this verbose information fill up
your disk.

untested and not endorsed, but posited as a possibility nonetheless.
--bradoaks

On 4/4/07, Mitchell Pirtle <mitchy at spacemonkeylabs.com> wrote:
> Hello memcache listers,
>
> I have a memcached machine that I'd like to decommission, and want to
> see what the machine is currently being used for - from the memcached
> perspective. The easiest way for me to poke around would be to get a
> list of keys in the cache - however I cannot see a way to do that
> through the PHP or Perl API.
>
> Is there a way to get a list of keys in the cache for a memcached instance?
>
> --
> Mitch Pirtle
>