i have an installation on memcache which i want to use in my production environment but when i have ran a couple of tests it seems that memcache doesn't free up memory even after it has used up all of it allocated memory, Also i logged in and ran a flush_all command but the objects are still in the cache. Here are outputs from some tests
memcached-tool
memcache-top v0.6 (default port: 11211, color: on, refresh: 3 seconds)
INSTANCE USAGE HIT % CONN TIME EVICT/s READ/s WRITE/s
127.0.0.1:11211 427.1% 0.0% 18 1.4ms 0.0 244 261.0K
AVERAGE: 427.1% 0.0% 18 1.4ms 0.0 244 261.0K
TOTAL: 4.3MB/ 1.0MB 18 1.4ms 0.0 244 261.0K
memcached-tool 127.0.0.1:11211 display
No Item_Size Max_age Pages Count Full? Evicted Evict_Time OOM
1 560B 4s 1 1872 yes 0 0 15488
2 704B 32s 1 559 no 0 0 0
3 880B 4s 1 1191 yes 0 0 1335
4 1.1K 9s 1 116 no 0 0 0
5 1.4K 21s 1 14 no 0 0 0
6 1.7K 4s 1 17 no 0 0 0
7 2.1K 84s 1 24 no 0 0 0
8 2.7K 130s 1 60 no 0 0 0
9 3.3K 25s 1 290 no 0 0 0
10 4.2K 9s 1 194 no 0 0 0
11 5.2K 9s 1 116 no 0 0 0
15 12.7K 816s 1 1 no 0 0 0
16 15.9K 769s 1 5 no 0 0 0
18 24.8K 786s 1 1 no 0 0 0
21 48.5K 816s 1 1 no 0 0 0
memcached-tool 127.0.0.1:11211 stats
127.0.0.1:11211 Field Value
accepting_conns 1
auth_cmds 0
auth_errors 0
bytes 4478060
bytes_read 23964596
bytes_written 546642860
cas_badval 0
cas_hits 0
cas_misses 0
cmd_flush 0
cmd_get 240894
cmd_set 4504
conn_yields 0
connection_structures 21
curr_connections 18
curr_items 4461
decr_hits 0
decr_misses 0
delete_hits 0
delete_misses 0
evictions 0
get_hits 43756
get_misses 197138
incr_hits 0
incr_misses 0
limit_maxbytes 1048576
listen_disabled_num 0
pid 8731
pointer_size 64
reclaimed 0
rusage_system 5.047232
rusage_user 4.311344
threads 4
time 1306247929
total_connections 3092
total_items 4504
uptime 1240
version 1.4.5
-m tells memcached how much RAM to use for item storage (in megabytes). Note carefully that this isn't a global memory limit, so memcached will use a few % more memory than you tell it to. Set this to safe values. Setting it to less than 48 megabytes does not work properly in 1.4.x and earlier. It will still use the memory.
Source: http://code.google.com/p/memcached/wiki/NewConfiguringServer
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6112324/memcached-using-more-than-max-memory