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Release Notes for Release 1.4.0
Memcached 1.4.0 Release NotesDate: Thu July 9, 2009 1 DownloadDownload Link: http://memcached.googlecode.com/files/memcached-1.4.0.tar.gz New FeaturesBinary ProtocolA new feature that brings new features. We now have goodness like CAS-everywhere (e.g. delete), silent, but verifiable mutation commands, and many other wonders. Note that the original protocol is not deprecated. It will be supported indefinitely, although some new features may only be available in the binary protocol. Client AvailabilityMany clients for the binary protocol are available. C libmemcached supports just about anything you can do with a memcached protocol and is the foundation for many clients in many different languages (which you can find linked from the project page). Project page: http://tangent.org/552/libmemcached.html Java spymemcached has very good text and binary protocol support over IPv4 and IPv6 with a quite comprehensive test suite. Project page: http://code.google.com/p/spymemcached/ Protocol Spec NIH problem? Go write your own client. :) http://cloud.github.com/downloads/memcached/memcached/protocol-binary.txt PerformanceLots of effort has gone into increasing performance. There is no longer a build-time distinction between a single-threaded and multi-threaded memcached. If you want a single-threaded memcached, ask for one thread (though there'll still be utility threads and other such things in the background). This change lets us focus on a future where multiple cores can be saturated for servicing requests. Facebook-inspired contention reduction with per-thread stat collection and the Facebook connection dispatch and thread starvation prevention contributions helped our scalability. Lock analysis also showed us that we had quite a bit of contention on hash table expansion which has been moved into its own thread, greatly improving the scalability on multicore hardware. A variety of smaller things also shook out of performance testing and analysis. There's also a memory optimization for users who don't actually make use of CAS. Running memcached with -C disables the use of CAS resulting in a savings of about eight bytes per item. If you have big caches, and don't use CAS, this can lead to a considerable savings. StatsThere are several new stats and some new ways to look at older stats. New Statsstats settings Show all current server settings (useful for troubleshooting as well as internal verification). Delete The global stats now contain statistics on deletion. delete_hits refers to the number of times a deletion command was issued which resulted in a modification of the cache while delete_misses refers to the number of times a deletion command was issued which had no effect due to a key mismatch. Incr/Decr Incr and decr each have a pair of stats showing when a successful/unsuccessful incr occurred. incr_hits, incr_misses, decr_hits, and decr_misses show where such mutations worked and where they failed to find an existing object to mutate. CAS CAS stats are tracked in three different ways:
Number of attempts to CAS in a new value that worked.
Number of attempts to CAS in a value where the key was not found.
Number of attempts to CAS in a value where the CAS failed due to the object changing between the gets and the update. slab class evicted time Per slab class, you can now see how recently accessed the most recent evicted data was. This is a useful gauge to determine eviction velocity on a slab so you can know whether evictions are healthy or if you've got a problem. Connection yield counts The -R option allows you to limit how many requests are handled in a single trip through the network state machine. The conn_yields stat reports how many times this has occurred. This is most useful when you have very high rates of operations from a single client which seems to be hogging server resources unfairly, such as extremely large multi-get operations. We do not expect this to be a common situation, but this stat can help diagnose such issues if they should occur. More Granular StatsWhere possible, stats are now tracked individually by slab class. The following stats are available on a per-slab-class basis (via "stats slabs"):
(misses are obviously not available as they refer to a non-existent item) Removed stats"stats malloc" and "stats maps" have been removed. If you depended on these commands for anything, please let us know so we may suggest alternatives for you. Misc
Bug Fixes
Development InfoWe've added a bunch of tests and new code coverage reports. All included code in this release has been tested against the following platforms (using the in-tree test suite):
FeedbackThis version is considered a stable release and has been well-tested, but bugs are always possible. Report feedback to the list or file bugs as you find them.
ContributorsThe following people contributed to this release since 1.2.8. 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 1.2.8..1.4.0 or use a web view.
149 Dustin Sallings
61 Trond Norbye
33 Toru Maesaka
30 dormando
13 Steve Yen
7 hachi
6 Aaron Stone
5 Brad Fitzpatrick
4 Victor Kirkebo
3 Eric Lambert
2 Brian Aker
1 Chris Goffinet
1 Clinton Webb
1 Matt Ingenthron
1 Ricky Zhou
1 Evan Klitzke
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