BEANSTALKD(1)
NAME
beastalkd - A simple, fast work queue.
SYNOPSIS
beanstalkd [options]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the beanstalkd work-queue service.
The beanstalk interface is generic, but was originally designed for
reducing the latency of page views in high-volume web applications by
running time-consuming tasks asynchronously.
OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below.
- -b <dir>
- Use a binlog to keep jobs on persistent storage in <dir>. Upon startup, beanstalkd will recover any binlog that is present in <dir>, then, during normal operation, append new jobs and changes in state to the binlog.
- -d Detach and run beanstalkd as a daemon.
- -f <ms>
- Call fsync(2) at most once every <ms> milliseconds. This will recuce disk activity and improve speed at the cost of safety. A power failure could result in the loss of up to <ms> milliseconds of history.
- A <ms> value of 0 will cause beanstalkd to call fsync every time it writes to the binlog.
- This option has no effect without the -b option.
- -F Never call fsync(2) function. This is like -f with a <ms> value
- of infinity.
- This option has no effect without the -b option.
- -h Show the command line help and summary of options.
- -l <addr>
- Listen on address <addr> (default is 0.0.0.0)
- -p <port>
- Listen on TCP port <port> (default is 11300).
- -s <bytes>
- The maximum size in bytes of each binlog file.
- This option has no effect without the -b option.
- -u <user>
- Become the user <user> and its primary group.
- -z <bytes>
- The maximum size in bytes of a job.
LICENSE
The beanstalkd daemon is copyright Keith Rarick and Philotic Inc. and is distributed under the GNU General Public License version 3 or later.
SEE ALSO
The README file that comes with beanstalkd
http://xph.us/software/beanstalkd/
AUTHOR
- The beanstalkd daemon was written by Keith Rarick and Philotic Inc.