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+++ b/redis.conf
@@ -1,5 +1,17 @@
 # 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
@@ -133,7 +145,7 @@ 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
@@ -141,7 +153,7 @@ 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"
+# 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.
@@ -255,26 +267,39 @@ 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
 # 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