how to tell when your cache is full?

[Gavin M. Roy]

Grab 1.2.2, it has an eviction value in the stats info.  An eviction is when
memcache removes an expired item *or* the oldest non-used item to make room
for a new item being added.

In our case we would be concerned once we started seeing 100,000+ evictions
a day.

Gavin

On 5/25/07, Ben Hartshorne <memcache at green.hartshorne.net> wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 02:10:10PM -0400, Gavin M. Roy wrote:
> > I would imagine when you start seeing more evictions in your stats than
> you
> > expect, you know your cache is full.  I'd say anything else is
> > over-complicating it.
>
> What do you mean by evictions?  Cache misses?  There are plenty of valid
> reasons for cache misses that can change depending on the traffic coming
> in rather than the state of the cache being full.
>
> I am using version 1.1.13; the list of stats I see are pid, uptime,
> time, version, pointer_size, rusage_user, rusage_system, curr_items,
> total_items, bytes, curr_connections, total_connections,
> connection_structures, cmd_get, cmd_set, get_hits, get_misses,
> bytes_read, bytes_written, and limit_maxbytes.  Which of these indicate
> evictions (and what is an eviction, anyways?  ;)
>
> Thanks,
>
> -ben
>
> --
> Ben Hartshorne
> email: ben at hartshorne.net
> http://ben.hartshorne.net
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