Redis’ Virtual Memory Specifications Draft

Salvatore has posted “part 1″ of the internals of Redis’ Virtual Memory subsystem today. Below is the intro with the link to full documentation on Google Code below.

This document details the internals of the Redis Virtual Memory subsystem. The intended audience is not the final user but programmers willing to understand or modify the Virtual Memory implementation.

Keys vs Values: what is swapped out?

The goal of the VM subsystem is to free memory transferring Redis Objects from memory to disk. This is a very generic command, but specifically, Redis transfers only objects associated with values. In order to understand better this concept we’ll show, using the DEBUG command, how a key holding a value looks from the point of view of the Redis internals.

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