diff --git a/lib/Cake/Cache/Engine/MemcacheEngine.php b/lib/Cake/Cache/Engine/MemcacheEngine.php
index 4bd3d72f3..8d9de0ea9 100644
--- a/lib/Cake/Cache/Engine/MemcacheEngine.php
+++ b/lib/Cake/Cache/Engine/MemcacheEngine.php
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ class MemcacheEngine extends CacheEngine {
 		if ($check) {
 			return true;
 		}
-		foreach ($this->_Memcache->getExtendedStats('slabs') as $slabs) {
+		foreach ($this->_Memcache->getExtendedStats('slabs', 0) as $slabs) {
 			foreach (array_keys($slabs) as $slabId) {
 				if (!is_numeric($slabId)) {
 					continue;