Memcached is generally treated as a black box. But what if you really need to know what’s in there? Not for runtime purposes, but for optimization and capacity planning? demo $ sudo peep --pretty 2479 time | exptime | nbytes | clsid | key | exprd | flushd 8658 | 613458 | 272 | 5 | "c3RhdH:171:5" | false | false 8658 | 0 | 6 | 1 | "current_c3RhdH:3" | false | false 8658 | 613458 | 281 | 5 | "c3RhdH
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