memcached 1.6.45
-p, --port=<num> TCP port to listen on (default: 11211)
-U, --udp-port=<num> UDP port to listen on (default: 0, off)
-s, --unix-socket=<file> UNIX socket to listen on (disables network support)
-a, --unix-mask=<mask> access mask for UNIX socket, in octal (default: 700)
-A, --enable-shutdown enable ascii "shutdown" command
-l, --listen=<addr> interface to listen on (default: INADDR_ANY)
can specify multiple comma separated listeners configured with different protocols
format: proto[<protcol>]:tag[<name>]:ip:port
i.e -l proto[binary]:tag[services]:127.0.0.1:11211,proto[ascii]:tag_tools_:127.0.0.1:11212
if TLS/SSL is enabled, 'notls', 'btls', 'mtls' prefix can be used to
specify for specific listeners no tls, basic tls, or peer-auth tls (i.e -l mtls:proto[ascii]:tag_tools_:127.0.0.1:11212
-d, --daemon run as a daemon
-r, --enable-coredumps maximize core file limit
-u, --user=<user> assume identity of <username> (only when run as root)
-m, --memory-limit=<num> item memory in megabytes (default: 64)
-M, --disable-evictions return error on memory exhausted instead of evicting
-c, --conn-limit=<num> max simultaneous connections (default: 1024)
-k, --lock-memory lock down all paged memory
-v, --verbose verbose (print errors/warnings while in event loop)
-vv very verbose (also print client commands/responses)
-vvv extremely verbose (internal state transitions)
-h, --help print this help and exit
-i, --license print memcached and libevent license
-V, --version print version and exit
-P, --pidfile=<file> save PID in <file>, only used with -d option
-f, --slab-growth-factor=<num> chunk size growth factor (default: 1.25)
-n, --slab-min-size=<bytes> min space used for key+value+flags (default: 48)
-L, --enable-largepages try to use large memory pages (if available)
-D <char> Use <char> as the delimiter between key prefixes and IDs.
This is used for per-prefix stats reporting. The default is
":" (colon). If this option is specified, stats collection
is turned on automatically; if not, then it may be turned on
by sending the "stats detail on" command to the server.
-t, --threads=<num> number of threads to use (default: 4)
-R, --max-reqs-per-event maximum number of requests per event, limits the
requests processed per connection to prevent
starvation (default: 20)
-C, --disable-cas disable use of CAS
-b, --listen-backlog=<num> set the backlog queue limit (default: 1024)
-B, --protocol=<name> protocol - one of ascii, binary, or auto (default: auto-negotiate)
-I, --max-item-size=<num> adjusts max item size
(default: 1m, min: 1k, max: 1024m)
-S, --enable-sasl turn on Sasl authentication
-F, --disable-flush-all disable flush_all command
-X, --disable-dumping disable stats cachedump, stats detail, and lru_crawler metadump
-W --disable-watch disable watch commands (live logging)
-Y, --auth-file=<file> (EXPERIMENTAL) enable ASCII protocol authentication. format:
user:pass\nuser2:pass2\n
-e, --memory-file=<file> (EXPERIMENTAL) mmap a file for item memory.
use only in ram disks or persistent memory mounts!
enables restartable cache (stop with SIGUSR1)
-Z, --enable-ssl enable TLS/SSL
-o, --extended comma separated list of extended options
most options have a 'no_' prefix to disable
- maxconns_fast: immediately close new connections after limit (default: enabled)
- hashpower: an integer multiplier for how large the hash
table should be. normally grows at runtime. (default starts at: 0)
set based on "STAT hash_power_level"
- tail_repair_time: time in seconds for how long to wait before
forcefully killing LRU tail item.
disabled by default; very dangerous option.
- hash_algorithm: the hash table algorithm
default is murmur3 hash.
options: jenkins, murmur3, xxh3
- no_lru_crawler: disable LRU Crawler background thread.
- lru_crawler_sleep: microseconds to sleep between items
default is 100.
- lru_crawler_tocrawl: max items to crawl per slab per run
default is 0 (unlimited)
- read_buf_mem_limit: limit in megabytes for connection read/response buffers.
do not adjust unless you have high (20k+) conn. limits.
0 means unlimited (default: 0)
- no_lru_maintainer: disable new LRU system + background thread.
- hot_lru_pct: pct of slab memory to reserve for hot lru.
(requires lru_maintainer, default pct: 20)
- warm_lru_pct: pct of slab memory to reserve for warm lru.
(requires lru_maintainer, default pct: 40)
- hot_max_factor: items idle > cold lru age * drop from hot lru. (default: 0.20)
- warm_max_factor: items idle > cold lru age * this drop from warm. (default: 2.00)
- temporary_ttl: TTL's below get separate LRU, can't be evicted.
(requires lru_maintainer, default: 61)
- idle_timeout: timeout for idle connections. (default: 0, no timeout)
- slab_chunk_max: (EXPERIMENTAL) maximum slab size in kilobytes. use extreme care. (default: 512)
- watcher_logbuf_size: size in kilobytes of per-watcher write buffer. (default: 256)
- worker_logbuf_size: size in kilobytes of per-worker-thread buffer
read by background thread, then written to watchers. (default: 64)
- track_sizes: enable dynamic reports for 'stats sizes' command.
note that counts for each size are approximate.
- no_hashexpand: disables hash table expansion (dangerous)
- modern: enables options which will be default in future.
currently: nothing
- no_modern: uses defaults of previous major version (1.4.x)
- drop_privileges: enable dropping extra syscall privileges
- no_drop_privileges: disable drop_privileges in case it causes issues with
some customisation.
(default is no_drop_privileges)
- sock_cookie_id: attributes an ID to a socket for ip filtering/firewalls
- External storage (ext_*) related options (see: https://memcached.org/extstore)
- ext_path: file to write to for external storage.
ie: ext_path=/mnt/d1/extstore:1G
- ext_page_size: size in megabytes of storage pages. (default: 64)
- ext_wbuf_size: size in megabytes of page write buffers. (default: 4)
- ext_threads: number of IO threads to run. (default: 1)
- ext_item_size: store items larger than this (bytes, default 512)
- ext_item_age: store items idle at least this long (seconds, default: no age limit)
- ext_low_ttl: consider TTLs lower than this specially (default: 0)
- ext_drop_unread: don't re-write unread values during compaction (default: disabled)
- ext_recache_rate: recache an item every N accesses (default: 2000)
- ext_compact_under: compact when fewer than this many free pages
(default: 1 percent of the assigned storage)
- ext_drop_under: drop COLD items when fewer than this many free pages
(default: 1/4th of the assigned storage)
- ext_max_frag: only defrag pages if they are less full than this pct-wise (default: 0.80)
- ext_max_sleep: max sleep time of background threads in us (default: 1000000)
- slab_automove_freeratio: ratio of memory to hold free as buffer.
(see doc/storage.txt for more info, default: 0.010)
- ssl_chain_cert: certificate chain file in PEM format
- ssl_key: private key, if not part of the -ssl_chain_cert
- ssl_keyformat: private key format (PEM, DER or ENGINE) (default: PEM)
- ssl_verify_mode: peer certificate verification mode, default is 0(None).
valid values are 0(None), 1(Request), 2(Require)
or 3(Once)
- ssl_ciphers: specify cipher list to be used
- ssl_ca_cert: PEM format file of acceptable client CA's
- ssl_wbuf_size: size in kilobytes of per-connection SSL output buffer
(default: 16)
- ssl_session_cache: enable server-side SSL session cache, to support session
resumption
- ssl_kernel_tls: enable kernel TLS offload
- ssl_min_version: minimum protocol version to accept (default: tlsv1.2)
valid values are 0(tlsv1.0), 1(tlsv1.1), 2(tlsv1.2), or 3(tlsv1.3).
-N, --napi_ids number of napi ids. see doc/napi_ids.txt for more details
Options (39)
| Option | Description | Source |
|---|
-p, --port num | Listen on TCP port <num>, the default is port 11211. | help + man |
-U, --udp-port num | Listen on UDP port <num>, the default is port 0, which is off. | help + man |
-s, --unix-socket file | Unix socket path to listen on (disables network support). | help + man |
-a, --unix-mask mask | Permissions (in octal format) for Unix socket created with -s option. | help + man |
-A, --enable-shutdown | Enable ascii "shutdown" command. | help + man |
-l, --listen addr | interface to listen on (default: INADDR_ANY) can specify multiple comma separated listeners configured with different protocols format: proto[<protcol>]:tag[<name>]:ip:port i.e -l… | help + man |
-d, --daemon | Run memcached as a daemon. | help + man |
-r, --enable-coredumps | Raise the core file size limit to the maximum allowable. | help + man |
-u, --user user | Assume the identity of <username> (only when run as root). | help + man |
-m, --memory-limit num | Use <num> MB memory max to use for object storage; | help + man |
-M, --disable-evictions | Disable automatic removal of items from the cache when out of memory. | help + man |
-c, --conn-limit num | max simultaneous connections (default: 1024) | help + man |
-k, --lock-memory | Lock down all paged memory. | help + man |
-v, --verbose | verbose (print errors/warnings while in event loop) | help + man |
-vv | very verbose (also print client commands/responses) | help + man |
-vvv | extremely verbose (internal state transitions) | help + man |
-h, --help | Show the version of memcached and a summary of options. | help + man |
-i, --license | Print memcached and libevent licenses. | help + man |
-V, --version | print version and exit | help + man |
-P, --pidfile file | Print pidfile to <filename>, only used under -d option. | help + man |
-L, --enable-largepages | Try to use large memory pages (if available). | help + man |
-D char | Use <char> as the delimiter between key prefixes and IDs. | help + man |
-t, --threads num | Number of threads to use to process incoming requests. | help + man |
-R, --max-reqs-per-event num | This option seeks to prevent client starvation by setting a limit to the number of sequential requests the server will process from an individual client connection. | help + man |
-C, --disable-cas | Disable the use of CAS (and reduce the per-item size by 8 bytes). | help + man |
-B, --protocol name | protocol - one of ascii, binary, or auto (default: auto-negotiate) | help + man |
-S, --enable-sasl | Turn on SASL authentication. | help + man |
-F, --disable-flush-all | Disables the "flush_all" command. | help + man |
-X, --disable-dumping | Disables the "stats cachedump" and "lru_crawler metadump" commands. | help + man |
-W | --disable-watch disable watch commands (live logging) | help |
-Y, --auth-file file | (EXPERIMENTAL) enable ASCII protocol authentication. | help |
-e, --memory-file file | (EXPERIMENTAL) mmap a file for item memory. | help |
-Z, --enable-ssl | enable TLS/SSL | help |
-o, --extended options | comma separated list of extended options most options have a 'no_' prefix to disable | help + man |
-N, --napi_ids | number of napi ids. | help |
-f, --slab-growth-factor factor | Use <factor> as the multiplier for computing the sizes of memory chunks that items are stored in. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-n, --slab-min-size size | Allocate a minimum of <size> bytes for the item key, value, and flags. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-b, --listen-backlog num | Set the backlog queue limit to <num> connections. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-I, --max-item-size size | Adjusting this value changes the item size limit. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
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