Though some clients do provide compression, the server itself only stores 1MB.
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Joseph Engo <[email protected]> wrote: > > I believe the max key size is 250 bytes and the value max is 1MB. > > > On May 7, 2009, at 12:22 PM, iberkner wrote: > > >> Hi All, >> >> Today we ran into an interesting issue. >> >> Running PHP 5.2.9 with memcache session as handler. >> >> We wrote a session variable and tried to access it in another page >> (same session) but it wouldn't work, it actually returned the previous >> session value stored in that variable. >> >> Some investigation later... revealed that the session variable was >> over 1MB (approx. 1.2mb). Our memcache server currently is set up to >> use 1GB of RAM. After we shrank the variable to under 1MB it worked >> fine. >> >> Does memcache have a "key" / "value" size limit? Is that something >> that can be set? >> >> Thanks >> > > -- "If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern." Ursula K. Le Guin http://www.finsel.com/words,-words,-words.aspx (My blog) - http://www.finsel.com/photo-gallery.aspx (My Photogallery) - http://www.reluctantdba.com/dbas-and-programmers/blog.aspx (My Professional Blog)
