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+.TH MEMCACHED 1 "April 11, 2005"
+.SH NAME
+memcached \- high-performance memory object caching system
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B memcached
+.RI [ options ]
+.br
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+This manual page documents briefly the
+.B memcached
+memory object caching daemon.
+.PP
+.B memcached
+is a flexible memory object caching daemon designed to alleviate database load
+in dynamic web applications by storing objects in memory.  It's based on 
+libevent to scale to any size needed, and is specifically optimized to avoid 
+swapping and always use non-blocking I/O.
+.br
+.SH OPTIONS
+These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax. A summary of options 
+is included below.
+.TP
+.B \-l <ip_addr>  
+Listen on <ip_addr>; default to INDRR_ANY. This is an important option to 
+consider as there is no other way to secure the installation. Binding to an 
+internal or firewalled network interface is suggested.
+.TP
+.B \-d
+Run memcached as a daemon.
+.TP
+.B \-u <username> 
+Assume the identity of <username> (only when run as root).
+.TP
+.B \-m <num>
+Use <num> MB memory max to use for object storage; the default is 64 megabytes.
+.TP
+.B \-c <num>
+Use <num> max simultaneous connections; the default is 1024.
+.TP
+.B \-k 
+Lock down all paged memory. This is a somewhat dangerous option with large
+caches, so consult the README and memcached homepage for configuration
+suggestions.
+.TP
+.B \-p <num> 
+Listen on TCP port <num>, the default is port 11211.
+.TP
+.B \-U <num> 
+Listen on UDP port <num>, the default is port 11211.
+.TP
+.B \-M
+Disable automatic removal of items from the cache when out of memory.
+Additions will not be possible until adequate space is freed up.
+.TP
+.B \-r
+Raise the core file size limit to the maximum allowable.
+.TP
+.B \-f <factor>
+Use <factor> as the multiplier for computing the sizes of memory chunks that
+items are stored in. A lower value may result in less wasted memory depending
+on the total amount of memory available and the distribution of item sizes.
+The default is 1.25.
+.TP
+.B \-s <size>
+Allocate a minimum of <size> bytes for the item key, value, and flags. The
+default is 48. If you have a lot of small keys and values, you can get a
+significant memory efficiency gain with a lower value. If you use a high
+chunk growth factor (-f option), on the other hand, you may want to increase
+the size to allow a bigger percentage of your items to fit in the most densely
+packed (smallest) chunks.
+.TP
+.B \-h
+Show the version of memcached and a summary of options.
+.TP
+.B \-v
+Be verbose during the event loop; print out errors and warnings.
+.TP
+.B \-vv
+Be even more verbose; same as \-v but also print client commands and 
+responses.
+.TP
+.B \-i
+Print memcached and libevent licenses.
+.TP
+.B \-P <filename>
+Print pidfile to <filename>, only used under -d option.
+.TP
+.B \-t <threads>
+Number of threads to use to process incoming requests. This option is only
+meaningful if memcached was compiled with thread support enabled. It is 
+typically not useful to set this higher than the number of CPU cores on the
+memcached server.
+.TP
+.B \-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.
+.br
+.SH LICENSE
+The memcached daemon is copyright Danga Interactive and is distributed under 
+the BSD license. Note that daemon clients are licensed separately.
+.br
+.SH SEE ALSO
+The README file that comes with memcached
+.br
+.B http://www.danga.com/memcached
+.SH AUTHOR
+The memcached daemon was written by Anatoly Vorobey 
+.B <mellon@pobox.com>
+and Brad Fitzpatrick 
+.B <brad@danga.com> 
+and the rest of the crew of Danga Interactive 
+.B http://www.danga.com
+.br