memcache on a dreamhack?

[kareila]

Does anyone have any tips for getting memcache to work on a dreamhack?

The instructions on the wiki assume you have root and can use apt-get.

Thanks in advance!

Comments

[mark]

Why not run memcached with -d so it runs in the background? And you can specify -m to give it a small amount of memory.

memcached -d -m 8 -l 127.0.0.1 -p $PORT

[sophie]

I don't know much at all about memcached, so the parameters I gave were based on what Dre had said was necessary.

The -m switch is definitely a good idea in this case, as would the -l switch if it does what I think it does (since I assume that otherwise it'll listen on all interfaces?)

As for -d, for a dev installation I imagine it would be useful to see console messages easily, though I don't even know if memcached outputs any, heh. (I'd personally still do it in screen just for the ability to Ctrl-C it directly rather than having to kill via the command line, but that's totally a me-thing and I know that not everyone will want that.)

Thanks for the tips!

[mark]

Yeah, -l is "bind to IP". And you're right about the foreground! It doesn't by default but you can specify -v or -vv (or maybe -vvv) to get some very verbose output which can really help in debugging.