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