Cannot seem to increase the default item size above 1 MB default

[GoogleCodeExporter]

When I try to start or install memcached using the -I parameter and setting the 
size to 3M I get the standard warning 

WARNING: Setting item max size above 1MB is not recommended!
 Raising this limit increases the minimum memory requirements
 and will decrease your memory efficiency.

And the install or start suspends. 

Does this option actually work and if so How do I get it to work?

I have an object that is 3MB is size that I need to cache but cannot.

Looking at the code im memcached.c where this option is handled, I can find the 
warning, but I see no reason for the process to suspend and simply stop working 
after the warning.

Can someone point me in the right direction please.

Thank you 

G.R. Graham
CECity.com

Original issue reported on code.google.com by GRGGra...@gmail.com on 5 Feb 2015 at 10:42

[GoogleCodeExporter]

that's just a warning, it shouldn't cause it to fail to start. It might be 
failing for other reasons you can't see? Or maybe your version is very old?

Original comment by dorma...@rydia.net on 19 Feb 2015 at 5:24