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

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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 }'
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    Leaving that for future reference: The default host/port is: 127.0.0.1:11211
    – Moritur
    Feb 8, 2017 at 12:25
  • So just type in console: echo "stats" | nc -w 1 localhost 11211 | awk '$2 == "bytes" { print $2" "$3 }'
    – jobima
    Apr 17, 2020 at 8:11
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    More verbose echo "stats" | nc -w 1 localhost 11211 | awk '$2 ~ "bytes" { print $2" - "$3/1024/1024 " MB" }'
    – user3148949
    Dec 4, 2021 at 6:21
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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
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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, 2011 at 22:13
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    STAT bytes is the line you are looking for total usage
    – Mike
    Dec 7, 2011 at 2:19
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I personally use PhpMemcacheAdmin

http://code.google.com/p/phpmemcacheadmin/

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

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Another alternative to answer @mike,

echo "stats" | nc localhost 11211
#or
echo "stats settings" | nc localhost 11211
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If you are using php:

$m = new Memcached();
$m->addServer('localhost', 11211);
echo $m->getStats()['localhost:11211']['bytes'];
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