Memcached cache doesn't flush

Question

I would like to flush the memcached cache keys and values on my centos server.

I have tried the telnet approach by telnetting to the port and then issuing: flush_all

It doesn't work an my values are still cached.

Does anyone know how I can accomplish this?

What is the "this" you are trying to accomplish exactly? What is the problem you are trying to solve? The flush_all command doesn't remove anything from the cache. It just marks the entries invalid. — David Schwartz, Sep 18 '12 at 1:01
from the memcached documentation: This command does not pause the server, as it returns immediately. It does not free up or flush memory at all, it just causes all items to expire. If you want to actually free it, you will have to restart the service. sudo service memcached restart — Ali, Nov 4 '16 at 18:58

ziima · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-02 15:17:19Z

Mark all items as stale (it will not clean the cache itself)

echo flush_all | telnet 127.0.0.1 11211

Perform dump, it will clean the stale items (but it may not deallocate memory)

/usr/share/memcached/scripts/memcached-tool 127.0.0.1:11211 dump > /dev/null

You can check the cache usage by

/usr/share/memcached/scripts/memcached-tool 127.0.0.1:11211 display

Tested on memcache 1.4.13

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