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1 =head1 NAME
2
3 memcached_behavior_get memcached_behavior_set
4
5 =head1 LIBRARY
6
7 C Client Library for memcached (libmemcached, -lmemcached)
8
9 =head1 SYNOPSIS
10
11 #include <memcached.h>
12
13 uint64_t
14 memcached_behavior_get (memcached_st *ptr,
15 memcached_behavior flag);
16
17 memcached_return
18 memcached_behavior_set (memcached_st *ptr,
19 memcached_behavior flag,
20 uint64_t data);
21
22 =head1 DESCRIPTION
23
24 libmemcached(3) behavior can be modified by use memcached_behavior_set().
25 Default behavior is the library strives to be quick and accurate. Some
26 behavior, while being faster, can also result in not entirely accurate
27 behavior (for instance, memcached_set() will always respond with
28 C<MEMCACHED_SUCCESS>).
29
30 memcached_behavior_get() takes a behavior flag and returns whether or not
31 that behavior is currently enabled in the client.
32
33 memcached_behavior_set() changes the value of a particular option of the
34 client. It takes both a flag (listed below) and a value. For simple on or
35 off options you just need to pass in a value of 1. Calls to
36 memcached_behavior_set() will flush and reset all connections.
37
38 =over 4
39
40 =item MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_USE_UDP
41
42 Causes libmemcached(3) to use the UDP transport when communicating
43 with a memcached server. Not all I/O operations are supported
44 when this behavior is enababled. The following operations will return
45 C<MEMCACHED_NOT_SUPPORTED> when executed with the MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_USE_UDP
46 enabled: memcached_version(), memcached_stat(), memcached_get(),
47 memcached_get_by_key(), memcached_mget(), memcached_mget_by_key(),
48 memcached_fetch(), memcached_fetch_result(), memcached_value_fetch().
49
50 All other operations are supported but are executed in a 'fire-and-forget'
51 mode, in which once the client has executed the operation, no attempt
52 will be made to ensure the operation has been received and acted on by the
53 server.
54
55 libmemcached(3) does not allow TCP and UDP servers to be shared within
56 the same libmemached(3) client 'instance'. An attempt to add a TCP server
57 when this behavior is enabled will result in a C<MEMCACHED_INVALID_HOST_PROTOCOL>,
58 as will attempting to add a UDP server when this behavior has not been enabled.
59
60 =item MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_NO_BLOCK
61
62 Causes libmemcached(3) to use asychronous IO. This is the fastest transport
63 available for storage functions.
64
65 =item MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_SND_TIMEOUT
66
67 This sets the microsecond behavior of the socket against the SO_SNDTIMEO flag.
68 In cases where you cannot use non-blocking IO this will allow you to still have
69 timeouts on the sending of data.
70
71 =item MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_RCV_TIMEOUT
72
73 This sets the microsecond behavior of the socket against the SO_RCVTIMEO flag.
74 In cases where you cannot use non-blocking IO this will allow you to still have
75 timeouts on the reading of data.
76
77 =item MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_TCP_NODELAY
78
79 Turns on the no-delay feature for connecting sockets (may be faster in some
80 environments).
81
82 =item MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_HASH
83
84 Makes the default hashing algorithm for keys use MD5. The value can be set
85 to either MEMCACHED_HASH_DEFAULT, MEMCACHED_HASH_MD5, MEMCACHED_HASH_CRC, MEMCACHED_HASH_FNV1_64, MEMCACHED_HASH_FNV1A_64, MEMCACHED_HASH_FNV1_32, MEMCACHED_HASH_FNV1A_32, MEMCACHED_HASH_JENKINS, MEMCACHED_HASH_HSIEH, and MEMCACHED_HASH_MURMUR.
86 Each hash has it's advantages and it's weaknesses. If you dont know or dont care, just go with the default.
87
88 =item MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_DISTRIBUTION
89
90 Using this you can enable different means of distributing values to servers.
91 The default method is MEMCACHED_DISTRIBUTION_MODULA. You can enable
92 consistent hashing by setting MEMCACHED_DISTRIBUTION_CONSISTENT.
93 Consistent hashing delivers better distribution and allows servers to be
94 added to the cluster with minimal cache losses. Currently
95 MEMCACHED_DISTRIBUTION_CONSISTENT is an alias for the value
96 MEMCACHED_DISTRIBUTION_CONSISTENT_KETAMA.
97
98 =item MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_CACHE_LOOKUPS
99
100 Memcached can cache named lookups so that DNS lookups are made only once.
101
102 =item MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_SUPPORT_CAS
103
104 Support CAS operations (this is not enabled by default at this point in the server since it imposes a slight performance penalty).
105
106 =item MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_KETAMA
107
108 Sets the default distribution to MEMCACHED_DISTRIBUTION_CONSISTENT_KETAMA
109 and the hash to MEMCACHED_HASH_MD5.
110
111 =item MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_KETAMA_WEIGHTED
112
113 Sets the default distribution to MEMCACHED_DISTRIBUTION_CONSISTENT_KETAMA with the weighted support.
114 and the hash to MEMCACHED_HASH_MD5.
115
116 =item MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_KETAMA_HASH
117
118 Sets the hashing algorithm for host mapping on continuum. The value can be set
119 to either MEMCACHED_HASH_DEFAULT, MEMCACHED_HASH_MD5, MEMCACHED_HASH_CRC, MEMCACHED_HASH_FNV1_64, MEMCACHED_HASH_FNV1A_64, MEMCACHED_HASH_FNV1_32, and MEMCACHED_HASH_FNV1A_32.
120
121 =item MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_POLL_TIMEOUT
122
123 Modify the timeout value that is used by poll(). The default value is -1. An signed int pointer must be passed to memcached_behavior_set() to change this value. For memcached_behavior_get() a signed int value will be cast and returned as the unsigned long long.
124
125 =item MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_USER_DATA
126
127 This allows you to store a pointer to a specifc piece of data. This can be
128 retrieved from inside of memcached_fetch_execute(). Cloning a memcached_st
129
130 will copy the pointer to the clone. This was deprecated in 0.14 in favor
131 of memcached_callback_set(3). This will be removed in 0.15.
132
133 =item MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_BUFFER_REQUESTS
134
135 Enabling buffered IO causes commands to "buffer" instead of being sent. Any
136 action that gets data causes this buffer to be be sent to the remote
137 connection. Quiting the connection or closing down the connection will also
138 cause the buffered data to be pushed to the remote connection.
139
140 =item MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_VERIFY_KEY
141
142 Enabling this will cause libmemcached(3) to test all keys to verify that they
143 are valid keys.
144
145 =item MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_SORT_HOSTS
146
147 Enabling this will cause hosts that are added to be placed in the host list in
148 sorted order. This will defeat consisten hashing.
149
150 =item MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_CONNECT_TIMEOUT
151
152 In non-blocking mode this changes the value of the timeout during socket
153 connection.
154
155 =item MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_BINARY_PROTOCOL
156
157 Enable the use of the binary protocol. Please note that you cannot toggle
158 this flag on an open connection.
159
160 =item MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_SERVER_FAILURE_LIMIT
161
162 Set this value to enable the server be removed after continuous MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_SERVER_FAILURE_LIMIT
163 times connection failure.
164
165 =item MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_IO_MSG_WATERMARK
166
167 Set this value to tune the number of messages that may be sent before
168 libmemcached should start to automatically drain the input queue. Setting
169 this value to high, may cause libmemcached to deadlock (trying to send data,
170 but the send will block because the input buffer in the kernel is full).
171
172 =item MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_IO_BYTES_WATERMARK
173
174 Set this value to tune the number of bytes that may be sent before
175 libmemcached should start to automatically drain the input queue (need
176 at least 10 IO requests sent without reading the input buffer). Setting
177 this value to high, may cause libmemcached to deadlock (trying to send
178 data, but the send will block because the input buffer in the kernel is full).
179
180 =item MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_NOREPLY
181
182 Set this value to specify that you really don't care about the result
183 from your storage commands (set, add, replace, append, prepend).
184
185 =back
186
187 =head1 RETURN
188
189 memcached_behavior_get() returns either the current value of the get, or 0
190 or 1 on simple flag behaviors (1 being enabled). memcached_behavior_set()
191 returns failure or success.
192
193 =head1 NOTES
194
195 memcached_behavior_set() in version .17 was changed from taking a pointer
196 to data value, to taking a uin64_t.
197
198 =head1 HOME
199
200 To find out more information please check:
201 L<http://tangent.org/552/libmemcached.html>
202
203 =head1 AUTHOR
204
205 Brian Aker, E<lt>brian@tangent.orgE<gt>
206
207 =head1 SEE ALSO
208
209 memcached(1) libmemcached(3) memcached_strerror(3)
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211 =cut
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