MEMSTAT(1)

💖 MEMSTAT — bestie edition 💖

okay so this is memstat, manual section 1, straight outta libmemcached-awesome. pull up a chair, we're reading a manpage together and it's gonna be adorable.

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✨ NAME ✨

memstat — libmemcached Documentation 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

memstat [options] [stat args]

Gather statistics from a server. yes bestie, that's the whole vibe check ✨

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

memstat dumps the state of memcached(1) servers 💅 it literally just tells you what's going on inside them. And where does all that delicious data go? It prints all data to stdout. every last crumb. periodt.

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💜 OPTIONS 💜

• -h, --help — Display help 🫶 (your little "what do I do now" button)
• -V, --version — Display version ⭐
• -q, --quiet — Operate quietly 🤫 lowkey, silent, mysterious
• -v, --verbose — Operate more verbosely 🗣️ it will NOT stop talking
• -d, --debug — See -v|--verbose. literally the same thing, no cap
• -s, --servers <list of servers> — Specify the list of servers as hostname[:port][,hostname[:port]...] 🌈
• -n, --non-blocking — Enable non-blocking operations 🔥
• -N, --tcp-nodelay — Disable Nagle's algorithm 💀 sorry Nagle
• -b, --binary — Enable binary protocol 🧚
• -B, --buffer — Buffer requests 🍓
• -u, --username <username> — Use username for SASL authentication 👑
• -p, --password <password> — Use password for SASL authentication 🔐
• -A, --args <stat> — Stat args.

DEPRECATED: use positional arguments. (it's giving "we moved on" 😭)

• -a, --analyze [<arg>] — Analyze and print differences of a server cluster. A memory and uptime comparison is performed by default 📊

Options:

• --analyze[=default] — Memory and uptime comparison.
• --analyze=latency — Network latency comparison.

• -S, -server-version — Obtain and print server version(s) only 👑
• --iterations — Iteration count of GETs sent by the latency test (default: 1000). 🔢

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🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

• MEMCACHED_SERVERS — Specify a list of servers. your fave little env var, she's iconic 💖

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🎀 NOTES 🎀

🧚 PROGRAM PREFIX

The prefix of this program is variable, i.e. it can be configured at build time. so it's not set in stone, it's customizable, she's flexible like that ✨

Usually the client programs of libmemcached-awesome are prefixed with mem, like memcat or memcp. cute right? matching namesakes 🫶

It can be configured, though, to replace the prefix with something else like mc, and in case of that, the client programs of libmemcached-awesome would be called mccat, mccp, etc. respectively. same besties, different name tag 💅

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💫 SEE ALSO 💫

• memcached(1) <https://linux.die.net/man/1/memcached>
• libmemcached(3) <https://linux.die.net/man/3/libmemcached>
• • C/C++ Client Library for memcached <>
• • Working with statistical information from a server <>

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okay bestie that's the whole page!! you ate that fr fr 🍓💖

this was libmemcached-awesome, version 1.1, dated Jul 24, 2026 — go forth and memstat, main character 🌟🦋 no cap, ily, bye!! 💅✨