Skip to content

ReleaseNotes1427

Jump to bottom
dormando edited this page Jun 24, 2016 · 2 revisions

Memcached 1.4.27 Release Notes

Date: 2016-6-24

Download

http://www.memcached.org/files/memcached-1.4.27.tar.gz

Overview

Fix some compile and flaky test issues with 1.4.26. Adds several new features and fixes.

Fixes

  • treat and print item flags as unsigned int

  • make watcher test less flaky.

  • indent fixes in thread_libevent_process to make future changes easier

  • fix solaris compiler warning in bipbuffer.c

  • add #include <stdio.h> to fix error: implicit declaration of function ‘snprintf’ on centos

  • change LRU crawler fprintf to use %u format instead of %d

  • add -o watcher_logbuf_size=N worker_logbuf_size=N

You don't need this last one unless you're writing tests or need to carefully tune the logger to avoid skipped or dropped lines.

New Features

If specifying -o idle_timeout=s where s is seconds, connected clients idle for at least that long will be asked to close. Defaulted to off, but could be useful if you tend to have clients that go out to lunch and never come back.

Thanks to Jay Grizzard for this feature!

Finally! You can now dynamically increase the amount of memory available to memcached without having to restart it. If -o modern is in use (slab rebalancer enabled), it can be told to free memory back to the system by lowering the memory limit.

A big caveat is that it's up to the OS as to if the memory can be returned to the OS, or if it stays in the application heap. Do careful testing before relying on being able to free memory.

These two features are part of the one pull request. The stats sizes command would hang one of the worker threads while iterating all of your items.

Now, the process is dynamic, tallying sizes as items are added to or removed from the cache. It must be enabled at starttime via -o track_sizes, or dynamically via stats sizes_enable and stats sizes_disable ascii commands.

If you have item sizes that are very static, or align very poorly by using the -f feature, you can now specify the exact sizes of the slab classes via commands like -o slab_sizes=100-200-300-400-500.

Contributors

The following people contributed to this release since 1.4.26.

Note that this is based on who contributed changes, not how they were done. In many cases, a code snippet on the mailing list or a bug report ended up as a commit with your name on it.

Note that this is just a summary of how many changes each person made which doesn't necessarily reflect how significant each change was. For details on what led up into a branch, either grab the git repo and look at the output of git log 1.4.26..1.4.27 or use a web view.

     9	dormando
     2	Jay Grizzard
     1	Mathieu CARBONNEAUX
     1	Ryan McCullagh
Clone this wiki locally