How do Gear6 Web Cache slab allocation algorithms compare to those in standard Memcached?
Standard memcached manages memory through a pre-set selection of Memcached bucket sizes. In operation these buckets are on average only 75% full, meaning that 25% or more of the memory capacity is wasted. Gear6 Web Cache uses a fine-grained block-based algorithm that virtually eliminates this waste, boosting by a third its memory usage efficiency.
