X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/redis.git/blobdiff_plain/7bf90179a32eeb7754c1a3244f6612ce780e7de4..8e33831b2b93d6d0a324ca01c6934197887276d8:/redis.conf diff --git a/redis.conf b/redis.conf index fc5ac59d..5ec2d029 100644 --- a/redis.conf +++ b/redis.conf @@ -1,21 +1,39 @@ # 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 +# 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 +# Specify the path for the unix socket that will be used to listen for +# incoming connections. There is no default, so Redis will not listen +# on a unix socket when not specified. +# +# unixsocket /tmp/redis.sock + # Close the connection after a client is idle for N seconds (0 to disable) timeout 300 @@ -28,7 +46,7 @@ timeout 300 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 @@ -66,8 +84,14 @@ rdbcompression yes # 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 ################################# @@ -86,6 +110,19 @@ dir ./ # # masterauth +# When a slave lost the connection with the master, or when the replication +# is still in progress, the slave can act in two different ways: +# +# 1) if slave-serve-stale-data is set to 'yes' (the default) the slave will +# still reply to client requests, possibly with out of data data, or the +# data set may just be empty if this is the first synchronization. +# +# 2) if slave-serve-stale data is set to 'no' the slave will reply with +# an error "SYNC with master in progress" to all the kind of commands +# but to INFO and SLAVEOF. +# +slave-serve-stale-data yes + ################################## SECURITY ################################### # Require clients to issue AUTH before processing any other @@ -94,9 +131,29 @@ dir ./ # # This should stay commented out for backward compatibility and because most # people do not need auth (e.g. they run their own servers). +# +# Warning: since Redis is pretty fast an outside user can try up to +# 150k passwords per second against a good box. This means that you should +# use a very strong password otherwise it will be very easy to break. # # requirepass foobared +# Command renaming. +# +# It is possilbe to change the name of dangerous commands in a shared +# environment. For instance the CONFIG command may be renamed into something +# of hard to guess so that it will be still available for internal-use +# tools but not available for general clients. +# +# Example: +# +# rename-command CONFIG b840fc02d524045429941cc15f59e41cb7be6c52 +# +# It is also possilbe to completely kill a command renaming it into +# an empty string: +# +# rename-command CONFIG "" + ################################### LIMITS #################################### # Set the max number of connected clients at the same time. By default there @@ -126,6 +183,37 @@ dir ./ # # maxmemory +# MAXMEMORY POLICY: how Redis will select what to remove when maxmemory +# is reached? You can select among five behavior: +# +# volatile-lru -> remove the key with an expire set using an LRU algorithm +# allkeys-lru -> remove any key accordingly to the LRU algorithm +# volatile-random -> remove a random key with an expire set +# allkeys->random -> remove a random key, any key +# volatile-ttl -> remove the key with the nearest expire time (minor TTL) +# noeviction -> don't expire at all, just return an error on write operations +# +# Note: with all the kind of policies, Redis will return an error on write +# operations, when there are not suitable keys for eviction. +# +# At the date of writing this commands are: set setnx setex append +# incr decr rpush lpush rpushx lpushx linsert lset rpoplpush sadd +# sinter sinterstore sunion sunionstore sdiff sdiffstore zadd zincrby +# zunionstore zinterstore hset hsetnx hmset hincrby incrby decrby +# getset mset msetnx exec sort +# +# The default is: +# +# maxmemory-policy volatile-lru + +# LRU and minimal TTL algorithms are not precise algorithms but approximated +# algorithms (in order to save memory), so you can select as well the sample +# size to check. For instance for default Redis will check three keys and +# pick the one that was used less recently, you can change the sample size +# using the following configuration directive. +# +# maxmemory-samples 3 + ############################## APPEND ONLY MODE ############################### # By default Redis asynchronously dumps the dataset on disk. If you can live @@ -133,7 +221,7 @@ dir ./ # 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 @@ -141,13 +229,14 @@ dir ./ # 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" -# # IMPORTANT: Check the BGREWRITEAOF to check how to rewrite the append # log file in background when it gets too big. appendonly no +# The name of the append only file (default: "appendonly.aof") +# appendfilename appendonly.aof + # The fsync() call tells the Operating System to actually write data on disk # instead to wait for more data in the output buffer. Some OS will really flush # data on disk, some other OS will just try to do it ASAP. @@ -172,6 +261,26 @@ appendonly no appendfsync everysec # appendfsync no +# When the AOF fsync policy is set to always or everysec, and a background +# saving process (a background save or AOF log background rewriting) is +# performing a lot of I/O against the disk, in some Linux configurations +# Redis may block too long on the fsync() call. Note that there is no fix for +# this currently, as even performing fsync in a different thread will block +# our synchronous write(2) call. +# +# In order to mitigate this problem it's possible to use the following option +# that will prevent fsync() from being called in the main process while a +# BGSAVE or BGREWRITEAOF is in progress. +# +# This means that while another child is saving the durability of Redis is +# the same as "appendfsync none", that in pratical terms means that it is +# possible to lost up to 30 seconds of log in the worst scenario (with the +# default Linux settings). +# +# If you have latency problems turn this to "yes". Otherwise leave it as +# "no" that is the safest pick from the point of view of durability. +no-appendfsync-on-rewrite no + ################################ VIRTUAL MEMORY ############################### # Virtual Memory allows Redis to work with datasets bigger than the actual @@ -188,20 +297,16 @@ vm-enabled no # 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. -# -# 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. +# file for every redis process you are running. Redis will complain if the +# swap file is already in use. # -# Useless to say, the best kind of disk for a Redis swap file (that's accessed -# at random) is a Solid State Disk (SSD). +# The best kind of storage for the Redis swap file (that's accessed at random) +# is a Solid State Disk (SSD). # # *** 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-%p.vm +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 @@ -255,23 +360,6 @@ vm-max-threads 4 # 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 @@ -279,6 +367,26 @@ shareobjectspoolsize 1024 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