Persistent memcached in PHP - server pool growing until curr_connections 10

问题

I have a problem with Memcached persistence in PHP. Memcached lib returns empty getServerList() until there are 10 concurrent connections. Couldn't find sensible explanation of that, but found people with the same problem (without solution).

My example:

class Cache {

    protected $memcached;

    public function __construct($cache_name) {
        $instance_name = 'persistent-' . $cache_name;
        $this->memcached = new Memcached($instance_name);
        $server_count = count($this->memcached->getServerList());
        echo '[MC] Server count of ', $instance_name, ': ', $server_count, PHP_EOL;

        if (0 == $server_count) {
            $servers = array(array("localhost","16586"),array("localhost","16587"));
            echo '[MC] Adding servers: ', json_encode($servers), PHP_EOL;
            // options don't change anything in my case
            $this->memcached->setOptions(array(
                Memcached::OPT_DISTRIBUTION => Memcached::DISTRIBUTION_CONSISTENT,
                Memcached::OPT_LIBKETAMA_COMPATIBLE => true
            ));
            $this->memcached->addServers($servers);
        }

        $stats = $this->memcached->getStats();
        foreach($stats as $server => $data){
            echo '[MC] Stats of ', $server, ' curr_connections: ', $data['curr_connections'], ' total_connections: ', $data['total_connections'], PHP_EOL;
        }
    }

    public function get($key) {
        echo '[MC] Server for key: ', $key, ' is ', json_encode($this->memcached->getServerByKey($key)), PHP_EOL;
        $ret = $this->memcached->get($key);
        echo '[MC] Getting ', $key, ' with result: ', $ret, PHP_EOL;
        return $ret;
    }

    public function set($key, $data, $timeout = 0) {
        echo '[MC] Set of ', $key, ' with data: ', $data, PHP_EOL;
        return $this->memcached->set($key, $data, $timeout);
    }
}

$cache = new Cache('instance');

$ret = $cache->get('something');

if(empty($ret)) {
    $cache->set('something', true);
}

What I expect from this code is single addServers run after connections are established.

Fresh run (after memcached/apache restart) shows:

// first run
[MC] Server count of persistent-instance: 0
[MC] Adding servers: [["localhost","16586"],["localhost","16587"]]
[MC] Stats of localhost:16586 curr_connections: 5 total_connections: 6
[MC] Stats of localhost:16587 curr_connections: 5 total_connections: 6
[MC] Server for key: something is {"host":"localhost","port":16587,"weight":1}
[MC] Getting something with result: 
[MC] Set of something with data: 1

// second
[MC] Server count of persistent-instance: 0
[MC] Adding servers: [["localhost","16586"],["localhost","16587"]]
[MC] Stats of localhost:16586 curr_connections: 6 total_connections: 7
[MC] Stats of localhost:16587 curr_connections: 6 total_connections: 7
[MC] Server for key: something is {"host":"localhost","port":16587,"weight":1}
[MC] Getting something with result: 1

// up to 6th call curr_connections are growing and still adding servers to pool
[MC] Server count of persistent-instance: 0
[MC] Adding servers: [["localhost","16586"],["localhost","16587"]]
[MC] Stats of localhost:16586 curr_connections: 10 total_connections: 11
[MC] Stats of localhost:16587 curr_connections: 10 total_connections: 11
[MC] Server for key: something is {"host":"localhost","port":16587,"weight":1}
[MC] Getting something with result: 1

// 7th+ call finally with expected result
[MC] Server count of persistent-instance: 2
[MC] Stats of localhost:16586 curr_connections: 10 total_connections: 11
[MC] Stats of localhost:16587 curr_connections: 10 total_connections: 11
[MC] Server for key: something is {"host":"localhost","port":16587,"weight":1}
[MC] Getting something with result: 1

Am I missing something? What's happening?

My config:

• Ubuntu 13.04
• Apache 2.2.22
• Memcached server 1.4.14 (4 instances)
• libmemcached 1.0.8
• PHP 5.4.9-4ubuntu2.3
• Memcached lib for PHP latest.

UPDATE 2014.04.22

The problem still exists on my latest config:

• Xubuntu 13.10 (kernel 3.11.0-19)
• Apache 2.4.6
• Memcached 1.4.14
• libmemcached 1.0.8
• PHP 5.5.3-1ubuntu2.3
• Memcached lib for PHP 2.1.0

回答1:

If you are using php-fpm (or a similar config with Apache), each php child will create its own persistent connection to memcache. So if php-fpm is configured to create 10 child, your log output makes fully sense :-)

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19451582/persistent-memcached-in-php-server-pool-growing-until-curr-connections-10