Memcached is an in-memory key-value store for small chunks of arbitrary data. Used to cache application data in memory, Memcached is designed to speed up dynamic web applications by preventing the need to constantly fetch data from an external source.

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At a Glance

This topic guides you on how to enable and configure memcached on your SmartMachine.

You can learn more about memcached at memcached.org.

Enabling Memcached

By default, Memcached is available at 127.0.0.1:11211. To enable Memcached, use this command as root or with sudo.

You can verify that Memcached was enabled using the svcs command like this:

To check the current Memcached settings:

Configuring Memcached

You can configure the amount of RAM that Memcached consumes and the number of connections available to Memcached. By default, Memcached uses 64 MB of RAM. To verify how much RAM Memcached is currently using, run this command:

To bump up this value to 128 MB, you would use this:

Seeing what ports are in use

To see what ports are in use on your SmaerMachine use the command:

Using Memcached

Enabling Memcached

Configuring Memcached

Seeing what ports are in use

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