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   1 # Memcached
   2
   3 ## Dependencies
   4
   5 * libevent, http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/ (libevent-dev)
   6
   7 ## Environment
   8
   9 ### Linux
  10
  11 If using Linux, you need a kernel with epoll.  Sure, libevent will
  12 work with normal select, but it sucks.
  13
  14 epoll isn't in Linux 2.4, but there's a backport at:
  15
  16     http://www.xmailserver.org/linux-patches/nio-improve.html
  17
  18 You want the epoll-lt patch (level-triggered).
  19
  20 ### Mac OS X
  21
  22 If you're using MacOS, you'll want libevent 1.1 or higher to deal with
  23 a kqueue bug.
  24
  25 Also, be warned that the -k (mlockall) option to memcached might be
  26 dangerous when using a large cache.  Just make sure the memcached machines
  27 don't swap.  memcached does non-blocking network I/O, but not disk.  (it
  28 should never go to disk, or you've lost the whole point of it)
  29
  30 ## Website
  31
  32 * http://www.memcached.org
  33
  34 ## Contributing
  35
  36 Want to contribute?  Up-to-date pointers should be at:
  37
  38 * http://contributing.appspot.com/memcached