From f9ef912c661a8d0a0690e20dc46f29484e0e4a5e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: antirez <antirez@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 00:20:46 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] more practical maxmemory+slaves hint in redis.conf

---
 redis.conf | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/redis.conf b/redis.conf
index 62d816ff..4760f291 100644
--- a/redis.conf
+++ b/redis.conf
@@ -219,6 +219,10 @@ slave-serve-stale-data yes
 # buffer of slaves is full with DELs of keys evicted triggering the deletion
 # of more keys, and so forth until the database is completely emptied.
 #
+# In short... if you have slaves attached it is suggested that you set a lower
+# limit for maxmemory so that there is some free RAM on the system for slave
+# output buffers (but this is not needed if the policy is 'noeviction').
+#
 # maxmemory <bytes>
 
 # MAXMEMORY POLICY: how Redis will select what to remove when maxmemory
-- 
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