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Update On: 23 Jul 2021How to install Memcached

Free & open-source, high-performance, shared concept object saving policy, generic but designed for use in racing up effective web statements by alleviating database contents.
Memcached is an in-memory key-value store for small chunks of temporary data (strings, objects) from issues of database calls, API calls, or page rendering.
Memcached is easy yet strong. Its simple layout helps quick deployment, ease of improvement, and solves many difficulties facing big data caches. Its API is available for the greatest common words.
memcached: High Production, Distributed Concept Object Cache server package.
Perl-Cache-Memcached: Perl client (library) to work with Memcached server.
python-Memcached: Perl customer (library) to run with Memcached server.
php-pecl-Memcache: PHP addition to work with the Memcached server.

Steps to install LibEvent

First we need to check if libevent is installed or not?
whereis libevent

Try to install it through yum
yum install libevent

If you don’t find it, then we need to download and install it.  Type following sequence of commands on your shell

wget https://github.com/downloads/libevent/libevent/libevent-2.0.21-stable.tar.gztar xfz libevent-2.0.21-stable.tar.gzcd libevent-2.0.21-stable./configuremakemake install

Steps to install Memcached

Try to with Yum

yum install memcached

or

Download and install from source.

wget http://memcached.googlecode.com/files/memcached-1.4.15.tar.gztar xfz memcached-1.4.15.tar.gzcd memcached-1.4.15./configuremakemake install

Run Memcached as a daemon (d = daemon, m = memory, u = user, l = IP to listen to, p = port)

memcached -d -m 1024 -u root -l 127.0.0.1 -p 11211

Install PHP Memcache

Try to install it through easyapache. Otherwise, use the following steps.

wget  http://pecl.php.net/get/memcache-3.0.8.tgztar zxvf memcache-3.0.8.tgzcd memcache-3.0.8phpize./configuremakemake install

vi /usr/local/lib/php.ini

Find the extension as below and if it is not existed, add it in the php.ini.

extension=memcache.so

Restart the Apache services.

service httpd restart

Tomonitor the memcached status

watch “echo stats | nc 127.0.0.1 11211”

$ echo “stats” | nc 127.0.0.1 11211

watch ‘php -r ‘”‘”‘$m=new Memcache;$m->connect(“127.0.0.1″, 11211);print_r($m->getstats());'”‘”