maybe a memory leak? try change memcached command line parameters... check if VM size change with diferent parameters
2011/2/6 lmwtv <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > I would like to use memcached on my VPS, which uses OpenVZ. The only > problem is that OpenVZ (at least the installation that my hosts have) > doesn't differentiate between virtual memory and resident memory, so > all virtual memory is included in my allocation. > > When I start up memcached, it is uses just under 1MB of resident, but > around 50MB of virtual memory. This is unaffected by the value for > the max memory usage (i.e. the -m tag). Obviously on most systems > using up virtual memory wouldn't be a problem, but on OpenVZ this > means that 50MB of memory is being 'used'. > > Can anyone tell me what the cause of this virtual memory use is, and > if it is possible to reduce or eliminate it. > > In case it's relevant, I'm using v 1.4.5 of memcached and 2.0.10- > stable of libevent. > > Thanks, > > Dave. -- Roberto Spadim Spadim Technology / SPAEmpresarial
