Awasome Memcached Stats Ideas. The amount of memory overhead per connection is low (even lower if the connection is idle), so don't. Web memcached can scale with a large number of connections very simply.
The php memcached module also includes a script that will display the stats in summary, and also graph form, as well as being able to view. Array|false memcache::getstats () returns an associative array with server's statistics. Stats example in ubuntu stats stat pid 686.
