Gavin M. Roy wrote:
Hello,
Am running memcached in production on a fairly large site and am
noticing that while I'm putting in expirations, the size of the
utilization is growing disproportionately with the expected growth of
the cache based upon what we implemented it for. By some testing, it
seems that items that are expired from the cache are only removed when
the get request is sent. Is our interpretation of this behavior
correct, or does content in the cache expire based upon the timestamp
through some internal stack? If it's the later how often does the
daemon run through to get rid of expired content?
TIA,
Gavin
Hi Gavin,
That is correct. expired items are only purged when a get request is
sent for the expired item or the expired item is cleared because the
storage is needed.
Jason
