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This README is just a fast "quick start" document. You can find more detailed
-documentation here:
-
-1) http://code.google.com/p/redis
-2) Check the 'doc' directory. doc/README.html is a good starting point :)
+documentation at http://redis.io
Building Redis
--------------
+Redis can be compiled and used on Linux, OSX, OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD.
+We support big endian and little endian architectures.
+
+It may compile on Solaris derived systems (for instance SmartOS) but our
+support for this platform is "best effort" and Redis is not guaranteed to
+work as well as in Linux, OSX, and *BSD there.
+
It is as simple as:
% make
-Redis is just a single binary, but if you want to install it you can use
-the "make install" target that will copy the binary in /usr/local/bin
-for default. You can also use "make PREFIX=/some/other/directory install"
-if you wish to use a different destination.
-
You can run a 32 bit Redis binary using:
% make 32bit
-After you build Redis is a good idea to test it, using:
+After building Redis is a good idea to test it, using:
% make test
-Buliding using tcmalloc
------------------------
+NOTE: if after building Redis with a 32 bit target you need to rebuild it
+ with a 64 bit target you need to perform a "make clean" in the root
+ directory of the Redis distribution.
+
+Allocator
+---------
+
+Selecting a non-default memory allocator when building Redis is done by setting
+the `MALLOC` environment variable. Redis is compiled and linked against libc
+malloc by default, with the exception of jemalloc being the default on Linux
+systems. This default was picked because jemalloc has proven to have fewer
+fragmentation problems than libc malloc.
-tcmalloc is a fast and space efficient implementation of malloc(). Compiling
-Redis with it can improve performances and memeory usage. You can read
-more about it here: http://goog-perftools.sourceforge.net/doc/tcmalloc.html
+To force compiling against libc malloc, use:
-In order to compile Redis with tcmalloc support install tcmalloc on your system
-and then use:
+ % make MALLOC=libc
- % make USE_TCMALLOC=yes
+To compile against jemalloc on Mac OS X systems, use:
-Note that you can pass any other target to make, as long as you append
-USE_TCMALLOC=yes at the end.
+ % make MALLOC=jemalloc
+
+Verbose build
+-------------
+
+Redis will build with a user friendly colorized output by default.
+If you want to see a more verbose output use the following:
+
+ % make V=1
Running Redis
-------------
% cd src
% ./redis-server /path/to/redis.conf
+It is possible to alter the Redis configuration passing parameters directly
+as options using the command line. Examples:
+
+ % ./redis-server --port 9999 --slaveof 127.0.0.1 6379
+ % ./redis-server /etc/redis/6379.conf --loglevel debug
+
+All the options in redis.conf are also supported as options using the command
+line, with exactly the same name.
+
Playing with Redis
------------------
You can find the list of all the available commands here:
- http://code.google.com/p/redis/wiki/CommandReference
+ http://redis.io/commands
-Enjoy!
+Installing Redis
+-----------------
+
+In order to install Redis binaries into /usr/local/bin just use:
+
+ % make install
+
+You can use "make PREFIX=/some/other/directory install" if you wish to use a
+different destination.
+Make install will just install binaries in your system, but will not configure
+init scripts and configuration files in the appropriate place. This is not
+needed if you want just to play a bit with Redis, but if you are installing
+it the proper way for a production system, we have a script doing this
+for Ubuntu and Debian systems:
+
+ % cd utils
+ % ./install_server
+
+The script will ask you a few questions and will setup everything you need
+to run Redis properly as a background daemon that will start again on
+system reboots.
+
+You'll be able to stop and start Redis using the script named
+/etc/init.d/redis_<portnumber>, for instance /etc/init.d/redis_6379.
+
+Enjoy!
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