peep

peep

A heap inspector for live memcached instances.

== License

Copyright 2009 Cloudburst, LLC. Licensed under the AFL 3. See the included LICENSE file.

== Features

• it works

== Installation

x86 Linux is required.

You need {memcached}[http://www.danga.com/memcached/] compiled with debugging symbols:

CFLAGS='-g' ./configure make sudo make install

Now install the gem: sudo gem install peep -- --with-memcached-include=/path/to/memcached/source

== Usage

Find the pid of a live memcached server. Then run:

peep --pretty $pid

or

peep --ugly $pid

Please note that memcached is fully blocked while peep is running.

Peep is also usable as a library, for statistics gathering or deeper inspection.

== Sample output

eweaver@ubuntu:~$ peep 32589 time | exptime | nbytes | nsuffix | it_f | clsid | nkey | key | exprd | flushd 8658 | 613458 | 272 | 8 | link | 5 | 31 | "element2-benchmark:c3RhdH:171:5" | false | false 8658 | 0 | 6 | 6 | link | 1 | 35 | "element2-benchmark:current_c3RhdH:3" | false | false 8658 | 613458 | 281 | 8 | link | 5 | 32 | "element2-benchmark:c3RhdH:171:26" | false | false 8678 | 95078 | 6 | 6 | link | 1 | 35 | "element2-benchmark:User:1:auth:m4Uq" | false | false 8658 | 0 | 8 | 6 | link | 2 | 34 | "element2-benchmark:user_dGltZWxp:4" | false | false 8686 | 613486 | 1278 | 9 | link | 9 | 27 | "element2-benchmark:User:1:6" | false | false 8658 | 613458 | 1286 | 9 | link | 9 | 27 | "element2-benchmark:User:1:4" | false | false 8658 | 613458 | 283 | 8 | link | 5 | 32 | "element2-benchmark:c3RhdH:171:28" | false | false 8658 | 613458 | 277 | 8 | link | 5 | 32 | "element2-benchmark:c3RhdH:171:30" | false | false ...