VALKEY-PROBLEMS(7)

💖 VALKEY-PROBLEMS(7) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to valkey-problems — the Valkey Manual page that exists purely to hold your hand when stuff goes sideways. no gatekeeping here. 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

valkey-problems — troubleshooting Valkey, the group-chat edition 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so this page is literally here to help you figure out what to do when you're having issues with Valkey. and honestly? helping people who are stuck is a whole part of the Valkey project, because we are not the kind of community that leaves you alone crying in a terminal at 3am. that's not the vibe. 🌈

here's the rundown, bestie:

• if you've got latency problems with Valkey, and it kinda seems like it just goes idle for a while, go read our valkey-latency(7) Valkey latency troubleshooting guide. it's giving answers, fr fr. ✨
• Valkey stable releases are usually super reliable — like, iconic levels of reliable 👑 — BUT in the rare event that you're dealing with crashes, the developers can help you so much more if you hand over actual debugging information. so please go read our valkey-debugging(7) Debugging Valkey guide. do not just say "it broke". 😭
• also, real talk: we have a long history of users reporting crashes with Valkey that turned out to be servers with broken RAM 💀. not a Valkey problem, a hardware problem. so if Valkey is not stable on your system, please test your RAM using valkey-server --test-memory. Valkey's built-in memory test is fast and reasonably reliable — but if you can, you should reboot your server and use memtest86 instead. like, the thorough one. do both if you're a maximalist. 🎀

no cap: the memory test is fast and reasonably reliable, but it's not the final boss. reboot + memtest86 is the main character move here. 🦋

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that's the whole page, bestie — you got this, and we got you. mwah 💋

signing off from the Valkey manual: version 9.0.0, dated 2025-10-21. slay, and may your latency stay low and your RAM stay healthy. 🎀✨💖