NAME

       nutcracker - Fast, light-weight proxy for memcached and Redis

SYNOPSIS

       nutcracker [options]

DESCRIPTION

       nutcracker, also known as twemproxy (pronounced "two-em-proxy"), is a fast and lightweight
       proxy for the memcached and Redis protocols.

       It was primarily built to reduce the connection count on backend caching servers,  but  it
       has a number of features, such as:

       •      Maintains persistent server connections to backend servers.

       •      Enables pipelining of requests and responses.

       •      Supports multiple server pools simultaneously.

       •      Shard data automatically across multiple servers.

       •      Supports multiple hashing modes including consistent hashing and distribution.

       •      High-availability by disabling nodes on failures.

       •      Observability through stats exposed on stats monitoring port.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
              Show usage information and exit.

       -V, --version
              Show version and exit.

       -t, --test-conf
              Test configuration for syntax errors and exit.

       -D, --describe-stats
              Print stats description and exit.

       -v, --verbose=N
              Set logging level to N. (default: 5, min: 0, max: 11)

       -o, --output=filename
              Set logging file to filename.

       -c, --conf-file=filename
              Set configuration file to filename.

       -s, --stats-port=port
              Set stats monitoring port to port.  (default: 22222)

       -a, --stats-addr=address
              Set stats monitoring IP to address.  (default: 0.0.0.0)

       -i, --stats-interval=interval
              Set stats aggregation interval in msec to interval.  (default: 30000 msec)

       -m, --mbuf-size=size
              Set size of mbuf chunk in bytes to size. (default: 16384 bytes)

       -d, --daemonize
              Run as a daemon.

       -p, --pid-file=filename
              Set pid file to filename.

SEE ALSO

       memcached(8), redis-server(1)

AUTHOR

       nutcracker was written by Twitter, Inc.

                                          June 13, 2013                             NUTCRACKER(8)