2009-06-22 Many people don’t know this but the latest memcached release (1.2.8 right now) can be about 15% more efficient in its memory usage than older releases. If you have a 600MB memcached server, upgrading will magically “gain” you 100MB of RAM. Why is this? When you ask memcached to store a value, it looks up the “slab” associated with that value. A slab holds values within a particular size

