Regarding chunk size growth factor

[dormando]

Hey,

This has been answered (in good detail) on the mailing list in the past, 
and also the header for slabs.c. This isn't a value you usually want to 
tune at all. If you really want to tune it, I'd recommend familiarizing 
yourself with the sources to the slabber first.

This should be in the FAQ though. If someone finds that e-mail please 
link it somewhere ;)

-Dormando

Ajinkya Nahar wrote:
> Hi all,
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> I am developing an application using PHP – Mysql and memcached (for 
> caching).
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> I wanted to know more about the chunk size growth factor which is set to 
> 1.25 by default.
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> We change this by using the –f option.
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> What does this factor mean?
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> What exactly will happen if we increase it?
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> Will this increase the slab size to more than 1 MB?
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> What all values can be set to this (1.25, 1.50, etc.)
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> Please let me know.
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> I have set the chunk size to 32 KB in the PHP memcache client.
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> Thanks in advance.
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> Regards,
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> Ajinkya
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