memcached_behavior_get, memcached_behavior_set - Manipulate
behavior
C Client Library for memcached (libmemcached, -lmemcached)
#include <memcached.h>
uint64_t
memcached_behavior_get (memcached_st *ptr,
memcached_behavior flag);
memcached_return_t
memcached_behavior_set (memcached_st *ptr,
memcached_behavior flag,
uint64_t data);
libmemcached(3) behavior can be modified by use
memcached_behavior_set(). Default behavior is the library strives to
be quick and accurate. Some behavior, while being faster, can also result in
not entirely accurate behavior (for instance, memcached_set() will
always respond with
"MEMCACHED_SUCCESS").
memcached_behavior_get() takes a behavior flag and returns
whether or not that behavior is currently enabled in the client.
memcached_behavior_set() changes the value of a particular
option of the client. It takes both a flag (listed below) and a value. For
simple on or off options you just need to pass in a value of 1. Calls to
memcached_behavior_set() will flush and reset all connections.
- MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_USE_UDP
- Causes libmemcached(3) to use the UDP transport when communicating
with a memcached server. Not all I/O operations are supported when this
behavior is enababled. The following operations will return
"MEMCACHED_NOT_SUPPORTED" when executed
with the MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_USE_UDP enabled: memcached_version(),
memcached_stat(), memcached_get(),
memcached_get_by_key(), memcached_mget(),
memcached_mget_by_key(), memcached_fetch(),
memcached_fetch_result(), memcached_value_fetch().
All other operations are supported but are executed in a
'fire-and-forget' mode, in which once the client has executed the
operation, no attempt will be made to ensure the operation has been
received and acted on by the server.
libmemcached(3) does not allow TCP and UDP servers to
be shared within the same libmemached(3) client 'instance'. An
attempt to add a TCP server when this behavior is enabled will result in
a "MEMCACHED_INVALID_HOST_PROTOCOL",
as will attempting to add a UDP server when this behavior has not been
enabled.
- MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_NO_BLOCK
- Causes libmemcached(3) to use asychronous IO. This is the fastest
transport available for storage functions.
- MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_SND_TIMEOUT
- This sets the microsecond behavior of the socket against the SO_SNDTIMEO
flag. In cases where you cannot use non-blocking IO this will allow you to
still have timeouts on the sending of data.
- MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_RCV_TIMEOUT
- This sets the microsecond behavior of the socket against the SO_RCVTIMEO
flag. In cases where you cannot use non-blocking IO this will allow you to
still have timeouts on the reading of data.
- MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_TCP_NODELAY
- Turns on the no-delay feature for connecting sockets (may be faster in
some environments).
- MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_HASH
- Makes the default hashing algorithm for keys use MD5. The value can be set
to either MEMCACHED_HASH_DEFAULT, MEMCACHED_HASH_MD5, MEMCACHED_HASH_CRC,
MEMCACHED_HASH_FNV1_64, MEMCACHED_HASH_FNV1A_64, MEMCACHED_HASH_FNV1_32,
MEMCACHED_HASH_FNV1A_32, MEMCACHED_HASH_JENKINS, MEMCACHED_HASH_HSIEH, and
MEMCACHED_HASH_MURMUR. Each hash has it's advantages and it's weaknesses.
If you don't know or don't care, just go with the default. Support for
MEMCACHED_HASH_HSIEH is a compile time option that is disabled by default.
To enable support for this hashing algorithm, configure and build
libmemcached with the --enable-hash_hsieh.
- MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_DISTRIBUTION
- Using this you can enable different means of distributing values to
servers. The default method is MEMCACHED_DISTRIBUTION_MODULA. You can
enable consistent hashing by setting MEMCACHED_DISTRIBUTION_CONSISTENT.
Consistent hashing delivers better distribution and allows servers to be
added to the cluster with minimal cache losses. Currently
MEMCACHED_DISTRIBUTION_CONSISTENT is an alias for the value
MEMCACHED_DISTRIBUTION_CONSISTENT_KETAMA.
- MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_CACHE_LOOKUPS
- Memcached can cache named lookups so that DNS lookups are made only
once.
- MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_SUPPORT_CAS
- Support CAS operations (this is not enabled by default at this point in
the server since it imposes a slight performance penalty).
- MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_KETAMA
- Sets the default distribution to MEMCACHED_DISTRIBUTION_CONSISTENT_KETAMA
and the hash to MEMCACHED_HASH_MD5.
- MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_KETAMA_WEIGHTED
- Sets the default distribution to MEMCACHED_DISTRIBUTION_CONSISTENT_KETAMA
with the weighted support. and the hash to MEMCACHED_HASH_MD5.
- MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_KETAMA_HASH
- Sets the hashing algorithm for host mapping on continuum. The value can be
set to either MEMCACHED_HASH_DEFAULT, MEMCACHED_HASH_MD5,
MEMCACHED_HASH_CRC, MEMCACHED_HASH_FNV1_64, MEMCACHED_HASH_FNV1A_64,
MEMCACHED_HASH_FNV1_32, and MEMCACHED_HASH_FNV1A_32.
- MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_KETAMA_COMPAT
- Sets the compatibility mode. The value can be set to either
MEMCACHED_KETAMA_COMPAT_LIBMEMCACHED (this is the default) or
MEMCACHED_KETAMA_COMPAT_SPY to be compatible with the SPY Memcached client
for Java.
- MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_POLL_TIMEOUT
- Modify the timeout value that is used by poll(). The default value
is -1. An signed int pointer must be passed to
memcached_behavior_set() to change this value. For
memcached_behavior_get() a signed int value will be cast and
returned as the unsigned long long.
- MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_USER_DATA
- This allows you to store a pointer to a specifc piece of data. This can be
retrieved from inside of memcached_fetch_execute(). Cloning a
memcached_st
will copy the pointer to the clone. This was deprecated in
0.14 in favor of memcached_callback_set(3). This will be removed
in 0.15.
- MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_BUFFER_REQUESTS
- Enabling buffered IO causes commands to "buffer" instead of
being sent. Any action that gets data causes this buffer to be be sent to
the remote connection. Quiting the connection or closing down the
connection will also cause the buffered data to be pushed to the remote
connection.
- MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_VERIFY_KEY
- Enabling this will cause libmemcached(3) to test all keys to verify
that they are valid keys.
- MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_SORT_HOSTS
- Enabling this will cause hosts that are added to be placed in the host
list in sorted order. This will defeat consisten hashing.
- MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_CONNECT_TIMEOUT
- In non-blocking mode this changes the value of the timeout during socket
connection.
- MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_BINARY_PROTOCOL
- Enable the use of the binary protocol. Please note that you cannot toggle
this flag on an open connection.
- MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_SERVER_FAILURE_LIMIT
- Set this value to enable the server be removed after continuous
MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_SERVER_FAILURE_LIMIT times connection failure.
- MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_IO_MSG_WATERMARK
- Set this value to tune the number of messages that may be sent before
libmemcached should start to automatically drain the input queue. Setting
this value to high, may cause libmemcached to deadlock (trying to send
data, but the send will block because the input buffer in the kernel is
full).
- MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_IO_BYTES_WATERMARK
- Set this value to tune the number of bytes that may be sent before
libmemcached should start to automatically drain the input queue (need at
least 10 IO requests sent without reading the input buffer). Setting this
value to high, may cause libmemcached to deadlock (trying to send data,
but the send will block because the input buffer in the kernel is
full).
- MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_IO_KEY_PREFETCH
- The binary protocol works a bit different than the textual protocol in
that a multiget is implemented as a pipe of single get-operations which
are sent to the server in a chunk. If you are using large multigets from
your application, you may improve the latency of the gets by setting this
value so you send out the first chunk of requests when you hit the
specified limit. It allows the servers to start processing the requests to
send the data back while the rest of the requests are created and sent to
the server.
- MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_NOREPLY
- Set this value to specify that you really don't care about the result from
your storage commands (set, add, replace, append, prepend).
- MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_NUMBER_OF_REPLICAS
- If you just want "a poor mans HA", you may specify the numbers
of replicas libmemcached should store of each item (on different servers).
This replication does not dedicate certain memcached servers to store the
replicas in, but instead it will store the replicas together with all of
the other objects (on the 'n' next servers specified in your server
list).
- MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_RANDOMIZE_REPLICA_READ
- Allows randomizing the replica reads starting point. Normally the read is
done from primary server and in case of miss the read is done from primary
+ 1, then primary + 2 all the way to 'n' replicas. If this option is set
on the starting point of the replica reads is randomized between the
servers. This allows distributing read load to multiple servers with the
expense of more write traffic.
- MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_CORK
- Enable TCP_CORK behavior. This is only available as an option Linux.
MEMCACHED_NO_SERVERS is returned if no servers are available to test with.
MEMCACHED_NOT_SUPPORTED is returned if we were not able to determine if
support was available. All other responses then MEMCACHED_SUCCESS report
an error of some sort. This behavior also enables
MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_TCP_NODELAY when set.
- MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_KEEPALIVE
- Enable TCP_KEEPALIVE behavior.
- MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_KEEPALIVE_IDLE
- Specify time, in seconds, to mark a connection as idle. This is only
available as an option Linux.
- MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_SOCKET_SEND_SIZE
- Find the current size of SO_SNDBUF. A value of 0 means either an error
occurred or no hosts were available. It is safe to assume system default
if this occurs.
- MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_SOCKET_RECV_SIZE
- Find the current size of SO_RCVBUF. A value of 0 means either an error
occurred or no hosts were available. It is safe to assume system default
if this occurs.
- MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_SERVER_FAILURE_LIMIT
- This number of times a host can have an error before it is disabled.
- MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_AUTO_EJECT_HOSTS
- If enabled any hosts which have been flagged as disabled will be removed
from the list of servers in the memcached_st structure. This must be used
in combination with MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_SERVER_FAILURE_LIMIT.
- MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_RETRY_TIMEOUT
- When enabled a host which is problematic will only be checked for usage
based on the amount of time set by this behavior.
memcached_behavior_get() returns either the current value
of the get, or 0 or 1 on simple flag behaviors (1 being enabled).
memcached_behavior_set() returns failure or success.
memcached_behavior_set() in version .17 was changed from
taking a pointer to data value, to taking a uin64_t.
To find out more information please check:
<https://launchpad.net/libmemcached>
Brian Aker, <brian@tangent.org>