Before this commit, after triggering a BGSAVE it was up to the caller of startBgsavForReplication() to handle slaves in WAIT_BGSAVE_START in order to update them accordingly. However when the replication target is the socket, this is not possible since the process of updating the slaves and sending the FULLRESYNC reply must be coupled with the process of starting an RDB save (the reason is, we need to send the FULLSYNC command and spawn a child that will start to send RDB data to the slaves ASAP). This commit moves the responsibility of handling slaves in WAIT_BGSAVE_START to startBgsavForReplication() so that for both diskless and disk-based replication we have the same chain of responsiblity. In order accomodate such change, the syncCommand() also needs to put the client in the slave list ASAP (just after the initial checks) and not at the end, so that startBgsavForReplication() can find the new slave alrady in the list. Another related change is what happens if the BGSAVE fails because of fork() or other errors: we now remove the slave from the list of slaves and send an error, scheduling the slave connection to be terminated. As a side effect of this change the following errors found by Oran Agra are fixed (thanks!): 1. rdbSaveToSlavesSockets() on failed fork will get the slaves cleaned up, otherwise they remain in a wrong state forever since we setup them for full resync before actually trying to fork. 2. updateSlavesWaitingBgsave() with replication target set as "socket" was broken since the function changed the slaves state from WAIT_BGSAVE_START to WAIT_BGSAVE_END via replicationSetupSlaveForFullResync(), so later rdbSaveToSlavesSockets() will not find any slave in the right state (WAIT_BGSAVE_START) to feed.
This README is just a fast quick start document. You can find more detailed documentation at http://redis.io.
What is Redis?
Redis is often referred as a data structures server. What this means is that Redis provides access to mutable data structures via a set of commands, which are sent using a server-client model with TCP sockets and a simple protocol. So different processes can query and modify the same data structures in a shared way.
Data structures implemented into Redis have a few special properties:
- Redis cares to store them on disk, even if they are always served and modified into the server memory. This means that Redis is fast, but that is also non-volatile.
- Implementation of data structures stress on memory efficiency, so data structures inside Redis will likely use less memory compared to the same data structure modeled using an high level programming language.
- Redis offers a number of features that are natural to find in a database, like replication, tunable levels of durability, cluster, high availability.
Another good example is to think of Redis as a more complex version of memcached, where the operations are not just SETs and GETs, but operations to work with complex data types like Lists, Sets, ordered data structures, and so forth.
If you want to know more, this is a list of selected starting points:
- Introduction to Redis data types. http://redis.io/topics/data-types-intro
- Try Redis directly inside your browser. http://try.redis.io
- The full list of Redis commands. http://redis.io/commands
- There is much more inside the Redis official documentation. http://redis.io/documentation
Building Redis
Redis can be compiled and used on Linux, OSX, OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD. We support big endian and little endian architectures, and both 32 bit and 64 bit systems.
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
Fixing build problems with dependencies or cached build options
Redis has some dependencies which are included into the deps
directory.
make
does not rebuild dependencies automatically, even if something in the
source code of dependencies is changes.
When you update the source code with git pull
or when code inside the
dependencies tree is modified in any other way, make sure to use the following
command in order to really clean everything and rebuild from scratch:
make distclean
This will clean: jemalloc, lua, hiredis, linenoise.
Also if you force certain build options like 32bit target, no C compiler
optimizations (for debugging purposes), and other similar build time options,
those options are cached indefinitely until you issue a make distclean
command.
Fixing problems building 32 bit binaries
If after building Redis with a 32 bit target you need to rebuild it
with a 64 bit target, or the other way around, you need to perform a
make distclean
in the root directory of the Redis distribution.
In case of build errors when trying to build a 32 bit binary of Redis, try the following steps:
- Install the packages libc6-dev-i386 (also try g++-multilib).
- Try using the following command line instead of
make 32bit
:make CFLAGS="-m32 -march=native" LDFLAGS="-m32"
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 at 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.sh
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
.
Code contributions
Note: by contributing code to the Redis project in any form, including sending a pull request via Github, a code fragment or patch via private email or public discussion groups, you agree to release your code under the terms of the BSD license that you can find in the COPYING file included in the Redis source distribution.
Please see the CONTRIBUTING file in this source distribution for more information.
Enjoy!