====== Installing Memcached ======

To install memcached on freebsd simply follow steps below.

<code bash>
cd /usr/ports/databases/memcached
make install clean
</code>

After installation we need to activate it in rc.conf.

<code bash | /etc/rc.conf>
memcached_enable="YES"
memcached_flags="-m 256 -l 127.0.0.1 -p 11211"
memcached_user="xyz"
</code>

Above code break down in following way.

<code text>
-m : memory you want to allocate.
-l : address you want to listen on. - specify external ip if you want to centralize memcache between few server.
-p : specify ports for the memcached
-u : User as owner of memcached process
</code>

Testin memcached status.

<code bash>
echo stats | nc 127.0.0.1 11211
</code>
You are good to go.