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The previously used hash function, djbhash, is not secure against collision attacks even when the seed is randomized as there are simple ways to find seed-independent collisions. The new hash function appears to be safe (or much harder to exploit at least) in this case, and has better distribution. Better distribution does not always means that's better. For instance in a fast benchmark with "DEBUG POPULATE 1000000" I obtained the following results: 1.6 seconds with djbhash 2.0 seconds with murmurhash2 This is due to the fact that djbhash will hash objects that follow the pattern `prefix:<id>` and where the id is numerically near, to near buckets. This improves the locality. However in other access patterns with keys that have no relation murmurhash2 has some (apparently minimal) speed advantage. On the other hand a better distribution should significantly improve the quality of the distribution of elements returned with dictGetRandomKey() that is used in SPOP, SRANDMEMBER, RANDOMKEY, and other commands. Everything considered, and under the suspect that this commit fixes a security issue in Redis, we are switching to the new hash function. If some serious speed regression will be found in the future we'll be able to step back easiliy. This commit fixes issue #663.
Where to find complete Redis documentation? ------------------------------------------- This README is just a fast "quick start" document. You can find more detailed documentation at http://redis.io Building Redis -------------- Redis can be compiled and used on Linux, OSX, OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD. We support big endian and little endian architectures. It may compile on Solaris derived systems (for instance SmartOS) but our support for this platform is "best effort" and Redis is not guaranteed to work as well as in Linux, OSX, and *BSD there. It is as simple as: % make You can run a 32 bit Redis binary using: % make 32bit After building Redis is a good idea to test it, using: % make test NOTE: if after building Redis with a 32 bit target you need to rebuild it with a 64 bit target you need to perform a "make clean" in the root directory of the Redis distribution. Allocator --------- Selecting a non-default memory allocator when building Redis is done by setting the `MALLOC` environment variable. Redis is compiled and linked against libc malloc by default, with the exception of jemalloc being the default on Linux systems. This default was picked because jemalloc has proven to have fewer fragmentation problems than libc malloc. To force compiling against libc malloc, use: % make MALLOC=libc To compile against jemalloc on Mac OS X systems, use: % make MALLOC=jemalloc Verbose build ------------- Redis will build with a user friendly colorized output by default. If you want to see a more verbose output use the following: % make V=1 Running Redis ------------- To run Redis with the default configuration just type: % cd src % ./redis-server If you want to provide your redis.conf, you have to run it using an additional parameter (the path of the configuration file): % cd src % ./redis-server /path/to/redis.conf It is possible to alter the Redis configuration passing parameters directly as options using the command line. Examples: % ./redis-server --port 9999 --slaveof 127.0.0.1 6379 % ./redis-server /etc/redis/6379.conf --loglevel debug All the options in redis.conf are also supported as options using the command line, with exactly the same name. Playing with Redis ------------------ You can use redis-cli to play with Redis. Start a redis-server instance, then in another terminal try the following: % cd src % ./redis-cli redis> ping PONG redis> set foo bar OK redis> get foo "bar" redis> incr mycounter (integer) 1 redis> incr mycounter (integer) 2 redis> You can find the list of all the available commands here: http://redis.io/commands Installing Redis ----------------- In order to install Redis binaries into /usr/local/bin just use: % make install You can use "make PREFIX=/some/other/directory install" if you wish to use a different destination. Make install will just install binaries in your system, but will not configure init scripts and configuration files in the appropriate place. This is not needed if you want just to play a bit with Redis, but if you are installing it the proper way for a production system, we have a script doing this for Ubuntu and Debian systems: % cd utils % ./install_server The script will ask you a few questions and will setup everything you need to run Redis properly as a background daemon that will start again on system reboots. You'll be able to stop and start Redis using the script named /etc/init.d/redis_<portnumber>, for instance /etc/init.d/redis_6379. Enjoy!
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