SERVER_ERROR out of memory on small puts to memcache.

[Eric Hodel]

On Oct 9, 2007, at 11:59 , Matt Knox wrote:
> I consistently get an out of memory error when performing  < 44  
> byte (key+data) puts to memcache, but when 'put'-ing the same key  
> with data that is long enough to exceed 44 chars key + data  , I  
> succeed.  I observe this behavior using both the ruby client  
> (memcache-client 1.5) and the python one (python-memcached),  
> although the python client seems to break at 59 chars, rather than 44.

memcache-client's default mode of operation is to Marshal the values  
you're storing in memcached.  For a String this is 4 bytes of overhead.

--
Poor workers blame their tools. Good workers build better tools. The
best workers get their tools to do the work for them. -- Syndicate Wars