> > The Dev server has this issue: > - items that are not yet expired (I had a sample with 35 minutes > lifetime left) get removed from the cache > - the memcache has plenty of free memory from the default 64MB > - the server has 12GB of free memory > > Any good reason why a valid item is removed with plenty of free space?
Your clock is probably drifting. Try 1.4.7 or newer? > > The Live server has a more severe issue: > - items that ARE expired are returned > - if I log into memcached via telnet and issue a flush_all command the > items are gone; this makes no sense to me as flush_all does only > expire > items, lazy remove is purging them The 1.4.2 ubuntu guy has bugs with multigets (and probably something else...). Not sure I understand what you mean by "all the items are gone" - that's sort of what flush_all does, albeit lazily. What exactly are you looking at when you say this? Also your server's clock is probably drifting.
