Memcached memory usage

Question

Is there any command line or php script which returns the memcached total memory usage?

quanta · Accepted Answer · 2010-11-15 02:56:16Z

up vote 4 down vote accepted

As Mike said, you can look at the line including the "STAT bytes" to see memory usage:

$ echo "stats" | nc -w 1 <host> <port> | awk '$2 == "bytes" { print $2" "$3 }'

answered Nov 15 '10 at 2:56

quanta
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Thanks, wish if I could vote up to both of you :) – jason Nov 15 '10 at 17:11

Mike · Answer 2 · 2010-11-15 00:46:57Z

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memcache's default port is 11211 so if memcache is local

telnet localhost 11211

Then run the stats command and that will spit out memory usage

stats

answered Nov 15 '10 at 0:46

Mike
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	Thanks for the telnet tip, but what should I really read in there? I see STAT bytes 9857275 STAT curr_items 43599 STAT total_items 1048925 and I have the impression that my memcached is never filling up... – Stefano Dec 6 '11 at 22:13
	STAT bytes is the line you are looking for total usage – Mike Dec 7 '11 at 2:19

jaredsten · Answer 3 · 2011-11-02 17:55:14Z

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I personally use PhpMemcacheAdmin

It creates an easy to use GUI. Of course you'll need to have PHP support.

answered Nov 2 '11 at 17:55

jaredsten
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