Agreed. Memcache is great until you get into the business of having to configure slabs. Most people just reach for redis at that point.
replyI always used memcached without knowing how it stores things.. never knew about the slab thing.
replyIt is more sophisticated than grab memory per item.
This helped be to understand it better - https://vectree.io/c/memcached-internals-slab-allocation-lru...
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