Check if Memcached is Running

Check to see if Memcached is Running

First thing to do is check and see if the port is LISTENING

netstat -anp | grep LISTEN | grep mem

Check to see the stats

echo "stats" | nc localhost 11211

You should get something like

STAT pid 26064
STAT uptime 867
STAT time 1364267341
STAT version 1.4.4
STAT pointer_size 64
STAT rusage_user 0.016997
STAT rusage_system 0.057991
STAT curr_connections 10
STAT total_connections 59
STAT connection_structures 11
STAT cmd_get 302
STAT cmd_set 59
STAT cmd_flush 0
STAT get_hits 247
STAT get_misses 55
STAT delete_misses 0
STAT delete_hits 9
STAT incr_misses 4
STAT incr_hits 9
STAT decr_misses 0
STAT decr_hits 0
STAT cas_misses 0
STAT cas_hits 0
STAT cas_badval 0
STAT auth_cmds 0
STAT auth_errors 0
STAT bytes_read 85900
STAT bytes_written 83466
STAT limit_maxbytes 67108864
STAT accepting_conns 1
STAT listen_disabled_num 0
STAT threads 4
STAT conn_yields 0
STAT bytes 55949
STAT curr_items 41
STAT total_items 59
STAT evictions 0 
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