Memcac...nalyze(3pm)

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✨ NAME ✨

memcached_analyze — okay bestie, this one analyzes server information 💖

(it lives in the 3pm section of the manual, aka User Contributed Perl Documentation, and the title up top is Memcac...nalyze(3pm) — the name got chopped for space but you get it 🫶)

📚 LIBRARY 📚

C Client Library for memcached (libmemcached, -lmemcached) 🌸

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <memcached.h>

memcached_analysis_st *
  memcached_analyze (memcached_st *ptr,
                     memcached_stat_st *stat,
                     memcached_return_t *error);

like... that's the whole vibe. five seconds of staring and you're in 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So libmemcached(3) is literally iconic — it can go ask a memcached server (or a whole collection of servers, she's social 🌈) what their current state is. Queries to find state hand you back a memcached_analysis_st structure. And you are responsible for freeing that structure. Yes, you. Not the library. You. 😭

memcached_analyze() takes those servers you provided, analyzes the useful information, and sets the result into the memcached_analysis_st structure. The return value must be freed by the calling application. no cap, don't leak her 🙈

And because writing a whole application just to call one function is giving unnecessary, there's a command line tool: memstat(1) with the option --analyze. Use that and skip the C entirely, bestie ✨

💫 RETURN 💫

  • On success: a pointer to the allocated memcached_analysis_st structure 👑
  • On failure: a NULL pointer 💀

You can peek at the error detail by checking the memcached_return_t value 🍓

⚠️ Any method returning a memcached_analysis_st expects you to free the memory allocated for it. Every. Single. Time. periodt 💖

🏠 HOME 🏠

To find out more information please check:

<https://launchpad.net/libmemcached>

that's the mothership, go say hi 🦋

🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

Toru Maesaka, <dev@torum.net> — the main character who wrote this, we stan 💜

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

go read those next, iykyk 😌

okay that's the whole page, you ate that 💅✨

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