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libmemcached Documentation

Synopsis

memstat [options] [stat args]

Gather statistics from a server

Description

memstat  dumps the state of memcached(1) <https://linux.die.net/man/1/memcached> servers. It prints all data to stdout.

Options

-h|--help

Display help.

-V|--version

Display version.

-q|--quiet

Operate quietly.

-v|--verbose

Operate more verbosely.

-d|--debug

See -v|--verbose​.

-s|--servers <list of servers>

Specify the list of servers as hostname[:port][,hostname[:port]...]​.

-n|--non-blocking

Enable non-blocking operations.

-N|--tcp-nodelay

Disable Nagle's algorithm.

-b|--binary

Enable binary protocol.

-B|--buffer

Buffer requests.

-u|--username <username>

Use username for SASL authentication.

-p|--password <password>

Use password for SASL authentication.

-A|--args <stat>

Stat args.

DEPRECATED: use positional arguments.

-a|--analyze [<arg>]

Analyze and print differences of a server cluster. A memory and uptime comparison is performed by default.

Options:

--analyze[=default]

Memory and uptime comparison.

--analyze=latency

Network latency comparison.

-S|-server-version

Obtain and print server version(s) only.

--iterations

Iteration count of GETs sent by the latency test (default: 1000).

Environment

MEMCACHED_SERVERS

Specify a list of servers.

Notes

Program Prefix

The prefix of this program is variable, i.e. it can be configured at build time.

Usually the client programs of libmemcached-awesome are prefixed with mem, like memcat or memcp​.

It can be configured, though, to replace the prefix with something else like mc, in case of that, the client programs of libmemcached-awesome would be called mccat, mccp, etc. respectively.

See Also

memcached(1) <https://linux.die.net/man/1/memcached> libmemcached(3) <https://linux.die.net/man/3/libmemcached>

Referenced By

libmemcached(3).

Sep 01, 2026 1.1 libmemcached-awesome