Memcached quite often ends up as a store for very small objects (small key and some integer value), though it isn’t really designed to do this kind of work by default. Current memory management is based on slabs (200 of them), where objects are grouped by similar size – though actual sizes are pre-defined at startup based on few configuration parameters.
By default memcached would have slabs based on assumption, that smallest object size will have 48 bytes of data (thats without item header), and will increase the slab sizes in +25% steps:
slab class 1: chunk size 104 perslab 10082 slab class 2: chunk size 136 perslab 7710 slab class 3: chunk size 176 perslab 5957 slab class 4: chunk size 224 perslab 4681 ...
So, in this case, it allocates at least 104 bytes per object, and next steps are way behind. Fortunately, there’re some quick steps to have better efficiency: Continue reading “Memcached for small objects”
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