more practical maxmemory+slaves hint in redis.conf

LuaDist · Feb 15, 2012 · 31f9f98 · 31f9f98
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@@ -210,6 +210,10 @@ slave-serve-stale-data yes
 # buffer of slaves is full with DELs of keys evicted triggering the deletion
 # of more keys, and so forth until the database is completely emptied.
 #
+# In short... if you have slaves attached it is suggested that you set a lower
+# limit for maxmemory so that there is some free RAM on the system for slave
+# output buffers (but this is not needed if the policy is 'noeviction').
+#
 # maxmemory <bytes>
 
 # MAXMEMORY POLICY: how Redis will select what to remove when maxmemory