memcached-1.1.9-snapshot

[Brad Fitzpatrick]

> >* TCP_NODELAY for better performance (avva)
> >
> Yay! Runs great with my braindead fetch-500-tiny-separate-integers test.

It'll get faster once we combine packets.


> >* support multiple levels of verbosity and make it not
> >  close stderr when in daemon mode if you're using verbose (evan, brad)
> >
> It's now very verbose. :) However it daemon mode it breaks:
>
> $ ./memcached -p 11000 -vvv -d
> <3 server listening
> memcached: kevent: Bad file descriptor
>
> Hmm, actually I can't get daemon mode to work without verbosity either
> on FreeBSD; it just seems to die silently, both with the snapshot
> version and 1.1.6.

Hmm.

You have a spare FreeBSD machine I can have a temporary account on?
If so, I can mail you my ssh public key.


> >* portability fixes to build on OS X / BSDs (evan)
> >
> Doesn't quite compile on FreeBSD 5.1:
>
> gcc -DNDEBUG -g -O2 -I/usr/local/include -static -L/usr/local/lib -o
> memcached  memcached.o slabs.o items.o assoc.o  -levent
> memcached.o: In function `main':
> /home/brion/src/memc/memcached-1.1.9-snapshot/memcached.c:1299:
> undefined reference to `mlockall'
> *** Error code 1
>
> If I comment out the mlockall() call, it compiles and works fine so far,
> though without the ability to lock the memory. This can probably be
> sensibly #ifdef'd out.

I applied your patch, slightly modified.  If you checkout from CVS, it'll
work.  I'll make a new snapshot later today.


> (Also, I have to pass --with-libevent=/usr/local to configure, but
> that's normal enough.)

Is that normal?  Anything we can do to avoid that?  Well, I guess the
FreeBSD ports tree will include it for you, huh?

- Brad