# Memcached

Memcached is a high performance multithreaded event-based key/value cache

store intended to be used in a distributed system.

See: https://memcached.org/about

A fun story explaining usage: https://memcached.org/tutorial

If you're having trouble, try the wiki: https://memcached.org/wiki

If you're trying to troubleshoot odd behavior or timeouts, see:

https://memcached.org/timeouts

https://memcached.org/ is a good resource in general. Please use the mailing

list to ask questions, github issues aren't seen by everyone!

## Dependencies

* libevent, https://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/ (libevent-dev)

* libseccomp, (optional, experimental, linux) - enables process restrictions for

  better security. Tested only on x86_64 architectures.

## Environment

Be warned that the -k (mlockall) option to memcached might be

dangerous when using a large cache.  Just make sure the memcached machines

don't swap.  memcached does non-blocking network I/O, but not disk.  (it

should never go to disk, or you've lost the whole point of it)

## Website

* https://www.memcached.org

## Contributing

See https://github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki/DevelopmentRepos