Memory management

[rkmr.em at gmail.com]

This is my memcached slab details. Why are there multiple 1kB, 2kB slabs?
Seems ineffective. Is there someway I can change it?
thanks

memcached-tool 127.0.0.1
  # Item_Size  Max_age  1MB_pages Full?
  6     252 B 179013 s       1      no
  7     316 B 171928 s       1      no
  8     396 B 180061 s       1      no
  9     496 B 183877 s       1      no
 10     620 B 183887 s       1      no
 11     776 B 183707 s       1      no
 12     972 B 178798 s       1      no
 13      1 kB 170944 s       1      no
 14      1 kB 167250 s       1      no
 15      1 kB 167223 s       1      no
 16      2 kB 181903 s       1      no
 17      2 kB 169914 s       1      no


On 3/25/07, Steven Grimm <sgrimm at facebook.com> wrote:
>
> Slab sizes -- or rather, the sizes of the items in each particular class
> of slabs -- are fixed at startup. Can you give an example of the kind of
> fragmentation you're seeing (or expecting to see)?
>
> -Steve
>
>
> Jure Petrovic wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > a question about slabs.
> >
> > Does Memcached have the ability to change slab sizes during runtime in
> > order to reduce internal fragmentation?
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Jure Petrovic
> >
> >
>
>
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