Step 1: find memcached settings file:
[root@tutorialspots /]# find -name memcached ./etc/sysconfig/memcached ./etc/selinux/targeted/active/modules/100/memcached ./home/nodejs2/node_modules/memcached ./usr/bin/memcached ./usr/share/doc/pecl/memcached
You see location: /etc/sysconfig/memcached
Then view content of this file
[root@tutorialspots /]# cat /etc/sysconfig/memcached PORT="11211" USER="memcached" MAXCONN="1024" CACHESIZE="20" OPTIONS=""
It means current amount of memory Memcached uses is 20Mb, how to increase it?
Step 2: Edit this file
You can change this amout to 4Gb
CACHESIZE="4096"
Step 3: restart memcached service
service memcached restart
You can use theses script to see memcached status
+ Memcache.php by Harun Yayli
+ PHP Memcached Admin