MySQL Bugs: #70224: Memcached allocates memory beyond configured limit

Bug #70224	Memcached allocates memory beyond configured limit
Submitted:	3 Sep 2013 14:19	Modified:	14 Sep 2019 19:33
Reporter:	Miljenko Brkic	Email Updates:
Status:	No Feedback	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server: Memcached	Severity:	S1 (Critical)
Version:	5.6.13	OS:	Linux
Assigned to:	Assigned Account	CPU Architecture:	Any
Tags:	innodb, memcached

Description:
Memcached allocates memory beyond configured limit, mysql process allocates all swap space.

Statistics (stats, stats slabs):

STAT engine_maxbytes 67108864
STAT bytes 89345503
STAT total_malloced 469760824 

How to repeat:
Use "cache_only" cache policy:

mysql> select * from cache_policies;
+--------------+------------+------------+---------------+--------------+
| policy_name  | get_policy | set_policy | delete_policy | flush_policy |
+--------------+------------+------------+---------------+--------------+
| cache_policy | cache_only | cache_only | cache_only    | cache_only   |
+--------------+------------+------------+---------------+--------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

Memcached memory is limited to 64MB. Test program is setting new data in the cache in loop. Only Memcached is used (i.e. no any other operations on mysql).

Here is memory usage with time:

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  SWAP COMMAND                                                                                                                                    
 2159 mysql     20   0  806m 429m 1416 S    1 10.8   0:08.76 377m mysqld
 2159 mysql     20   0  810m 421m 1448 S    6 10.6   8:10.06 389m mysqld
 2159 mysql     20   0  810m 412m 1448 S   10 10.3  13:02.58 398m mysqld
 2159 mysql     20   0  810m 402m 1448 S   10 10.1  24:48.38 408m mysqld
 2159 mysql     20   0  810m 394m 1428 S    1  9.9  34:24.98 416m mysqld
...

Suggested fix:
Standalone Memcached does not have this problem:

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  SWAP COMMAND                                                                                                                                    
 1595 memcache  20   0 47344  896  676 S    0  0.0   0:00.52  45m memcached
 1595 memcache  20   0 51440 5012  776 S    6  0.1   8:55.15  45m memcached
 1595 memcache  20   0 51440 5012  776 S   10  0.1  16:13.69  45m memcached
 1595 memcache  20   0 51440 4924  744 S   13  0.1  26:57.56  45m memcached
...

Hi Miljenko,

I tried to reproduce this with modern versions of MySQL and I can't reproduce this issue. Have you had same issues with latest 5.7 or 8.0 ? If yes please provide complete config.

uzdravlje
Bogdan

No feedback was provided for this bug for over a month, so it is
being suspended automatically. If you are able to provide the
information that was originally requested, please do so and change
the status of the bug back to "Open".