memcached not using allocated memory

[Marcus Bointon]

On 19 Apr 2007, at 22:15, Lewis, Bill wrote:

> Why does a "SERVER_ERROR out of memory" error occur when stats say  
> there is plenty of memory available?  I am loading objects that are  
> all 16394 bytes and using the default growth factor of 1.25.   
> According to the stats the cache is only 55% full.  Where is the  
> other 45%?  Relevant stats below.

I'm not familiar with the internals, but I believe that memory chunks  
are allocated in power-of-2 sized chunks. 16394 is 10 bytes over  
16384, which is 2^14, so your 16394 bytes will be stored in a 32768  
size chunk (2^15), hence the wastage. It's just unfortunate that your  
data is that size - it couldn't get much less efficient! That's my  
theory anyway, could be completely wrong of course!

Marcus
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