Couchbase

Memory Ejection Storm Degrading Hit Ratio

Resource Contention

When memory pressure forces aggressive ejection (couchbase_by_bucket_evictions, couchbase_by_bucket_vb_*_eject), the cache hit ratio drops dramatically, forcing operations to fetch from disk. This creates a performance spiral as disk fetches are orders of magnitude slower than memory access.

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