diff --git a/memcached/README.md b/memcached/README.md
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@@ -22,6 +22,12 @@ Start your memcached container with the above command and then you can connect y
 
 The memcached server information would then be available through the ENV variables generated by the link as well as through DNS as `memcache` from `/etc/hosts`.
 
+How to set the memory usage for memcached
+
+	docker run --name my-memcache -d memcached memcached -m 64
+
+This would set the memcache server to use use 64 megabytes for storage.
+
 For infomation on configuring your memcached server, see the extensive [wiki](https://code.google.com/p/memcached/wiki/NewStart).
 
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