# Get pid of memcached instance my app is connected to?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/get-pid-of-memcached-instance-my-app-is-connected-to/191918>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 20, 2010, 5:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/get-pid-of-memcached-instance-my-app-is-connected-to/191918 "2010-07-20T17:46:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![cmaxvv](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@cmaxvv](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cmaxvv)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2010, 5:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/get-pid-of-memcached-instance-my-app-is-connected-to/191918/1 "2010-07-20T17:46:30Z")

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Hi all. I’m using memcache-client to connect to memcached in my rails  
app. I’m having some weirdness on my production server and have several  
memcached instances running. Is there a way to get the pid of the one  
that my app is actually connected to?

thanks, max

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**Author:** ![cmaxvv](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@cmaxvv](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cmaxvv)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2010, 7:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/get-pid-of-memcached-instance-my-app-is-connected-to/191918/2 "2010-07-20T19:08:49Z")

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CACHE.stats[:pid]

m

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**Author:** ![cmaxvv](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@cmaxvv](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cmaxvv)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2010, 10:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/get-pid-of-memcached-instance-my-app-is-connected-to/191918/3 "2010-07-21T10:27:53Z")

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Marc B. wrote:

> CACHE.stats[:pid]
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> m

ah thanks Marc - with my version it’s actually CACHE.stats[“pid”] but  
you put me on the right track 🙂 cheers!