Comments on: Flushing memcached servers the easy way

By: Flushing memcached servers from Ruby @ Will’s Web Miscellany

Flushing memcached servers from Ruby @ Will’s Web Miscellany — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 12:25:30 +0000

[...] Flushing memcached servers the easy way I highlighted a way to flush a memcached server without restarting [...]

By: Luca de Marinis

Luca de Marinis — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 12:05:42 +0000

Hi, I noticed that nc hangs (for longer than I cared to check!) after sending the command.. how about adding -w 3 to have it close the socket after 3 seconds of inactivity? (I also tried -q, which looked even better, but sometimes it closed before I could read any answer back)

By: teo caber

teo caber — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:22:57 +0000

nice, thx

as sidenote, you can do it throu telnet too:
telnet localhost 11211
flush_all

By: Will

Will — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:00:34 +0000

You can also use this handy script to get similar results.

By: Fred

Fred — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:52:50 +0000

Very Nice tip.
Thanks

you can also telnet to memcached and run many command such as stats

$ telnet localhost 11211

stats

By: Shai

Shai — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:12:00 +0000

Genius Post! gotta <3 it. :)

By: Morten

Morten — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:30:53 +0000

Nice Will. How about adding memcached:flush to the eycap gem? :-)