1 .TH BEANSTALKD 1 "November 21, 2008"
3 beastalkd \- A fast, distributed, in-memory work-queue service
9 This manual page documents briefly the
14 is a fast, distributed, in-memory work-queue service. Its
15 interface is generic, but was originally designed for reducing the
16 latency of page views in high-volume web applications by running most
17 time-consuming tasks asynchronously.
20 These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax. A summary of options
24 Detach and run beanstalkd as a daemon.
27 Listen on address ADDR (default is 0.0.0.0)
30 Become the user USER and its primary group.
33 Listen on TCP port PORT (default is 11300).
36 The maximum size in bytes of a job.
39 Show the command line help and summary of options.
41 The beanstalkd daemon is copyright Keith Rarick and Philotic Inc. and is
42 distributed under the GNU General Public License version 3 or later.
45 The README file that comes with beanstalkd
47 .B http://xph.us/software/beanstalkd/
49 The beanstalkd daemon was written by Keith Rarick and Philotic Inc.