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NAME
memcached - high-performance memory object caching system
SYNOPSIS
memcached [options]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the memcached memory object caching
daemon.
memcached is a flexible memory object caching daemon designed to
alleviate database load in dynamic web applications by storing objects
in memory. It's based on libevent to scale to any size needed, and is
specifically optimized to avoid swapping and always use non-blocking
I/O.
OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax. A summary of
options is included below.
-s, --unix-socket=<file>
Unix socket path to listen on (disables network support).
-A, --enable-shutdown
Enable ascii "shutdown" command.
-a, --unix-mask=<perms>
Permissions (in octal format) for Unix socket created with -s
option.
-l, --listen=<addr>
Listen on <addr>; default to INADDR_ANY. <addr> may be specified
as host:port. If you don't specify a port number, the value you
specified with -p or -U is used. You may specify multiple
addresses separated by comma or by using -l multiple times. This
is an important option to consider as there is no other way to
secure the installation. Binding to an internal or firewalled
network interface is suggested.
-d, --daemon
Run memcached as a daemon.
-u, --user=<username>
Assume the identity of <username> (only when run as root).
-m, --memory-limit=<num>
Use <num> MB memory max to use for object storage; the default is
64 megabytes.
-c, --conn-limit=<num>
Use <num> max simultaneous connections; the default is 1024.
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-R, --max-reqs-per-event=<num>
This option seeks to prevent client starvation by setting a limit
to the number of sequential requests the server will process from
an individual client connection. Once a connection has exceeded
this value, the server will attempt to process I/O on other
connections before handling any further request from this
connection. The default value for this option is 20.
-k, --lock-memory
Lock down all paged memory. This is a somewhat dangerous option
with large caches, so consult the README and memcached homepage
for configuration suggestions.
-p, --port=<num>
Listen on TCP port <num>, the default is port 11211.
-U, --udp-port=<num>
Listen on UDP port <num>, the default is port 11211, 0 is off.
-M, --disable-evictions
Disable automatic removal of items from the cache when out of
memory. Additions will not be possible until adequate space is
freed up.
-r, --enable-coredumps
Raise the core file size limit to the maximum allowable.
-f, --slab-growth-factor=<factor>
Use <factor> as the multiplier for computing the sizes of memory
chunks that items are stored in. A lower value may result in less
wasted memory depending on the total amount of memory available
and the distribution of item sizes. The default is 1.25.
-n, --slab-min-size=<size>
Allocate a minimum of <size> bytes for the item key, value, and
flags. The default is 48. If you have a lot of small keys and
values, you can get a significant memory efficiency gain with a
lower value. If you use a high chunk growth factor (-f option),
on the other hand, you may want to increase the size to allow a
bigger percentage of your items to fit in the most densely packed
(smallest) chunks.
-C, --disable-cas
Disable the use of CAS (and reduce the per-item size by 8 bytes).
-h, --help
Show the version of memcached and a summary of options.
-v, --verbose
Be verbose during the event loop; print out errors and warnings.
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-vv Be even more verbose; same as -v but also print client commands
and responses.
-vvv Be extremely verbose; same of the above and also print internal
state transitions.
-i, --license
Print memcached and libevent licenses.
-P, --pidfile=<filename>
Print pidfile to <filename>, only used under -d option.
-t, --threads=<threads>
Number of threads to use to process incoming requests. This
option is only meaningful if memcached was compiled with thread
support enabled. It is typically not useful to set this higher
than the number of CPU cores on the memcached server. Setting a
high number (64 or more) of worker threads is not recommended.
The default is 4.
-D <char>
Use <char> as the delimiter between key prefixes and IDs. This is
used for per-prefix stats reporting. The default is ":" (colon).
If this option is specified, stats collection is turned on
automatically; if not, then it may be turned on by sending the
"stats detail on" command to the server.
-L, --enable-largepages
Try to use large memory pages (if available). Increasing the
memory page size could reduce the number of TLB misses and
improve the performance. In order to get large pages from the OS,
memcached will allocate the total item-cache in one large chunk.
Only available if supported on your OS.
-b, --listen-backlog=<num>
Set the backlog queue limit to <num> connections. The default is
1024.
-B, --protocol=<proto>
Specify the binding protocol to use. By default, the server will
autonegotiate client connections. By using this option, you can
specify the protocol clients must speak. Possible options are
"auto" (the default, autonegotiation behavior), "ascii" and
"binary".
-I, --max-item-size=<size>
Override the default size of each slab page. The default size is
1mb. Default value for this parameter is 1m, minimum is 1k, max
is 128m. Adjusting this value changes the item size limit.
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-S, --enable-sasl
Turn on SASL authentication. This option is only meaningful if
memcached was compiled with SASL support enabled.
-F, --disable-flush-all
Disables the "flush_all" command. The cmd_flush counter will
increment, but clients will receive an error message and the
flush will not occur.
-X, --disable-dumping
Disables the "stats cachedump" and "lru_crawler metadump"
commands.
-o, --extended=<options>
Comma separated list of extended or experimental options. See -h
or wiki for up to date list.
-V, --version
print version and exit
LICENSE
The memcached daemon is copyright Danga Interactive and is distributed
under the BSD license. Note that daemon clients are licensed
separately.
SEE ALSO
The README file that comes with memcached
http://www.memcached.org
AUTHOR
The memcached daemon was written by Anatoly Vorobey <mellon@pobox.com>
and Brad Fitzpatrick <brad@danga.com> and the rest of the crew of
Danga Interactive http://www.danga.com
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