On Jul 1, 4:13 pm, Bennett Haselton <[email protected]> wrote: > I couldn't find this inhttp://code.google.com/p/memcached/wiki/FAQ > but maybe I missed it: When the cache is full and you attempt to store > more items, what happens? Will the least-recently-used items get > deleted from the cache (even if they haven't been expired yet), or > some sort of pseudo-LRU that makes a best guess at expiring the least- > recently-used item even if it's not 100% accurate? > > Someone added a comment at the bottom > ofhttp://code.google.com/p/memcached/wiki/FAQ > asking the same thing.
*approximately* the oldest for a given slab. It is not 100% accurate (and I'm hoping to make it less accurate in at least an experimental engine at some point). There are a few things it does already to sacrifice accuracy with efficiency.
