# Redis configuration file example
+# Note on units: when memory size is needed, it is possible to specifiy
+# it in the usual form of 1k 5GB 4M and so forth:
+#
+# 1k => 1000 bytes
+# 1kb => 1024 bytes
+# 1m => 1000000 bytes
+# 1mb => 1024*1024 bytes
+# 1g => 1000000000 bytes
+# 1gb => 1024*1024*1024 bytes
+#
+# units are case insensitive so 1GB 1Gb 1gB are all the same.
+
# By default Redis does not run as a daemon. Use 'yes' if you need it.
# Note that Redis will write a pid file in /var/run/redis.pid when daemonized.
daemonize no
-# When run as a daemon, Redis write a pid file in /var/run/redis.pid by default.
-# You can specify a custom pid file location here.
+# When running daemonized, Redis writes a pid file in /var/run/redis.pid by
+# default. You can specify a custom pid file location here.
pidfile /var/run/redis.pid
# Accept connections on the specified port, default is 6379
port 6379
# If you want you can bind a single interface, if the bind option is not
-# specified all the interfaces will listen for connections.
+# specified all the interfaces will listen for incoming connections.
#
# bind 127.0.0.1
loglevel verbose
# Specify the log file name. Also 'stdout' can be used to force
-# the demon to log on the standard output. Note that if you use standard
+# Redis to log on the standard output. Note that if you use standard
# output for logging but daemonize, logs will be sent to /dev/null
logfile stdout
# The filename where to dump the DB
dbfilename dump.rdb
-# For default save/load DB in/from the working directory
-# Note that you must specify a directory not a file name.
+# The working directory.
+#
+# The DB will be written inside this directory, with the filename specified
+# above using the 'dbfilename' configuration directive.
+#
+# Also the Append Only File will be created inside this directory.
+#
+# Note that you must specify a directory here, not a file name.
dir ./
################################# REPLICATION #################################
# happens this is the preferred way to run Redis. If instead you care a lot
# about your data and don't want to that a single record can get lost you should
# enable the append only mode: when this mode is enabled Redis will append
-# every write operation received in the file appendonly.log. This file will
+# every write operation received in the file appendonly.aof. This file will
# be read on startup in order to rebuild the full dataset in memory.
#
# Note that you can have both the async dumps and the append only file if you
# Still if append only mode is enabled Redis will load the data from the
# log file at startup ignoring the dump.rdb file.
#
-# The name of the append only file is "appendonly.log"
+# The name of the append only file is "appendonly.aof"
#
# IMPORTANT: Check the BGREWRITEAOF to check how to rewrite the append
# log file in background when it gets too big.
# This is the path of the Redis swap file. As you can guess, swap files
# can't be shared by different Redis instances, so make sure to use a swap
-# file for every redis process you are running.
+# file for every redis process you are running. Redis will complain if the
+# swap file is already in use.
#
-# The swap file name may contain "%p" that is substituted with the PID of
-# the Redis process, so the default name /tmp/redis-%p.vm will work even
-# with multiple instances as Redis will use, for example, redis-811.vm
-# for one instance and redis-593.vm for another one.
+# The best kind of storage for the Redis swap file (that's accessed at random)
+# is a Solid State Disk (SSD).
#
-# Useless to say, the best kind of disk for a Redis swap file (that's accessed
-# at random) is a Solid State Disk (SSD).
-vm-swap-file /tmp/redis-%p.vm
+# *** WARNING *** if you are using a shared hosting the default of putting
+# the swap file under /tmp is not secure. Create a dir with access granted
+# only to Redis user and configure Redis to create the swap file there.
+vm-swap-file /tmp/redis.swap
# vm-max-memory configures the VM to use at max the specified amount of
# RAM. Everything that deos not fit will be swapped on disk *if* possible, that
# in terms of number of queries per second. Use 'yes' if unsure.
glueoutputbuf yes
-# Use object sharing. Can save a lot of memory if you have many common
-# string in your dataset, but performs lookups against the shared objects
-# pool so it uses more CPU and can be a bit slower. Usually it's a good
-# idea.
-#
-# When object sharing is enabled (shareobjects yes) you can use
-# shareobjectspoolsize to control the size of the pool used in order to try
-# object sharing. A bigger pool size will lead to better sharing capabilities.
-# In general you want this value to be at least the double of the number of
-# very common strings you have in your dataset.
-#
-# WARNING: object sharing is experimental, don't enable this feature
-# in production before of Redis 1.0-stable. Still please try this feature in
-# your development environment so that we can test it better.
-shareobjects no
-shareobjectspoolsize 1024
+# Hashes are encoded in a special way (much more memory efficient) when they
+# have at max a given numer of elements, and the biggest element does not
+# exceed a given threshold. You can configure this limits with the following
+# configuration directives.
+hash-max-zipmap-entries 64
+hash-max-zipmap-value 512
+
+# Active rehashing uses 1 millisecond every 100 milliseconds of CPU time in
+# order to help rehashing the main Redis hash table (the one mapping top-level
+# keys to values). The hash table implementation redis uses (see dict.c)
+# performs a lazy rehashing: the more operation you run into an hash table
+# that is rhashing, the more rehashing "steps" are performed, so if the
+# server is idle the rehashing is never complete and some more memory is used
+# by the hash table.
+#
+# The default is to use this millisecond 10 times every second in order to
+# active rehashing the main dictionaries, freeing memory when possible.
+#
+# If unsure:
+# use "activerehashing no" if you have hard latency requirements and it is
+# not a good thing in your environment that Redis can reply form time to time
+# to queries with 2 milliseconds delay.
+#
+# use "activerehashing yes" if you don't have such hard requirements but
+# want to free memory asap when possible.
+activerehashing yes
+
+################################## INCLUDES ###################################
+
+# Include one or more other config files here. This is useful if you
+# have a standard template that goes to all redis server but also need
+# to customize a few per-server settings. Include files can include
+# other files, so use this wisely.
+#
+# include /path/to/local.conf
+# include /path/to/other.conf
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