Invalid Memcache->connection member variable errors

Question

We are currently using Nginx as our server and memcached for caching mechanism. I was inspecting PHP error logs and lots of PHP Warnings about memcached caught my attention.

PHP Warning: Memcache::get(): Invalid Memcache->connection member variable in {directory}/library/Zend/Cache/Backend/Memcached.php on line 180

At the line it was pointing, there is this piece of code:

$tmp = $this->_memcache->get($id);

I also see many other PHP warnings with the same warning message but different with different function calls of memcache object:

PHP Warning: Memcache::add(): Invalid Memcache->connection member variable in {directory}/library/Zend/Cache/Backend/Memcached.php on line 180
PHP Warning: Memcache::set(): Invalid Memcache->connection member variable in {directory}/library/Zend/Cache/Backend/Memcached.php on line 230
PHP Warning: Memcache::delete(): Invalid Memcache->connection member variable in {directory}/library/Zend/Cache/Backend/Memcached.php on line 323

I did a search through the web but could not find anything that really helped. From time to time, we have some problems with our memcached. Is it possible that this some kind of issue that happens when servers are down because of some problem? I really do not have any idea about what causes these warnings. How can I correct it or at least how can I avoid these warnings?

Antarctica

have you found the solution? if you don't mind... – Driscoll

Do you created Connection, before trying get something from daemon? – Bertberta

Answer 1

I found 3 references that might help you

1. Limit of file system and memcache
2. Possible memory leaks
3. Memcache vs Memcached

Expectoration

Answer 2

You need to check key max 250 chars and value max : 1MB

Thereinto

Answer 3

Have you compiled your own php recently? It's possible ther versions are out of sync.

Knowall

This isn't really an answer to their question. – Drawer

Answer 4

I had the same problem. when i called memcache object in __destruct to update the state of my object i goot the error. and here is my solution.: call object in your class function where you change the state and be sure to send an instance of memcache to this class.

Landin

Answer 5

While from the warning message itself, it may not be obvious, but the error may be happening when you're trying to serialize/deserialize memcache connection object itself.

For example:

class a {
  private Memcache $mc;
  private $name = 'glen';

  public function __construct(Memcache $mc) {
    $this->mc = $mc;
  }
}

$a = new a($mc);
$mc->set('a', $a);

You very likely (as me) ended up here because class having mixed concerns (the object being a model and has as other business logic as well). you can omit the unwanted mc key from serializing using __debugInfo function:

public function __debugInfo() {
    return [];
}

• https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.magic.php#object.debuginfo

While writing this note, I'm not able to reproduce with my own example, so there's something else involved, perhaps memory corruption. But removing $mc property solve the problem for me.

Villar