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| author | Paul Lindner <plindner@hi5.com> | 2007-04-17 00:24:53 +0000 |
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| committer | Paul Lindner <plindner@hi5.com> | 2007-04-17 00:24:53 +0000 |
| commit | fb6b20babe220f96764e6edd58d3369c94a1bf38 (patch) | |
| tree | 87c1065e3297bf2eb845f839055f3193d9c5621c | |
| parent | eb75a0df2708cf72ba75105aeca2f4db4756841e (diff) | |
| download | memcached-fb6b20babe220f96764e6edd58d3369c94a1bf38.tar.gz | |
Updated docs to reflect that memcached works fine on macs with recent libevent
git-svn-id: http://code.sixapart.com/svn/memcached/trunk/server@513 b0b603af-a30f-0410-a34e-baf09ae79d0b
| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/OSX.txt | 28 |
3 files changed, 7 insertions, 28 deletions
@@ -1,7 +1,11 @@ + 2007-04-16 Paul Lindner <lindner@inuus.com> + * Add notes to README about MacOS, libevent and kqueue. + * Windows Patch integration -- part 1, warnings elimination. + 2007-04-12 Paul Lindner <lindner@mirth.inuus.com> * Allow changes to the verbosity level of the server with a new @@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ epoll isn't in Linux 2.4 yet, but there's a backport at: You want the epoll-lt patch (level-triggered). +If you're using MacOS, you'll want libevent 1.1 or higher to deal with +a kqueue bug. + Also, be warned that the -k (mlockall) option to memcached might be dangerous when using a large cache. Just make sure the memcached machines don't swap. memcached does non-blocking network I/O, but not disk. (it diff --git a/doc/OSX.txt b/doc/OSX.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 7021e0c..0000000 --- a/doc/OSX.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,28 +0,0 @@ -memcached is slow on OSX because: - - -- OSX's kqueue is broken - -- OSX's TCP_NOPUSH stuff is different/broken - -So there are reports that this works and make memcached fast on OS X: - - Two simple changes: - - First, in memcached.c (in the memcached source directory) add - (anywhere above line 105, which reads #ifdef TCP_NOPUSH) the line: - - #undef TCP_NOPUSH - - I just added it on the line above the #ifdef line. - - Rebuild memcached (just do a make && sudo make install, don.t need - to re-run configure if you.ve already done it) - - then, set the environment variable EVENT_NOKQUEUE to 1 - - in csh and derivatives: setenv EVENT_NOKQUEUE 1 - - in sh and derivatives (like bash): export EVENT_NOKQUEUE=1 - - then start memcached, and it should be fast (it certainly made a - difference here) - |