Oh OK I see it now: http://code.google.com/p/memcached/wiki/FAQ#What_is_memcached's_cache? I didn't know that's what the question meant, that's how I missed it :)
At 04:18 PM 7/1/2009, you wrote: >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.
