Can I get Memcached running on a Windows (x64) 64bit environment?

Question

Does anyone know IF, WHEN or HOW I can get Memcached running on a Windows 64bit environment?

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Answer 1

I was just searching for memcached on a 64bit Windows system and found this. So far there isn't any Win64 memcached version. But I just started the memcached.exe with the appropriate commands via cmd and it's just running fine. I'm using Windows Vista 64bit, don't know if there are any differences between Vista and the server versions.

Kindest regards Fleshgrinder

Answer 2

Just so people know, the 32-bit and 64-bit version as build by the good people from membase/couchbase/whatever is still available the blog URL has changed though:

32-bit binary of memcached 1.4.4 as Windows-service:

http://blog.couchbase.com/memcached-144-windows-32-bit-binary-now-available

http://s3.amazonaws.com/downloads.northscale.com/memcached-win32-1.4.4-14.zip

64-bit binary of memcached 1.4.4 as Windows-service:

http://blog.couchbase.com/memcached-windows-64-bit-pre-release-available

http://s3.amazonaws.com/downloads.northscale.com/memcached-win64-1.4.4-14.zip

The 64-bit version does have the wrong uptime.

So maybe you want this binary of 1.4.2 instead:

http://www.urielkatz.com/archive/detail/memcached-64-bit-windows/

The 32-bit version as included with MemCacheDManager also suppors running on Windows 2000 (no IPv6):

http://allegiance.chi-town.com/MemCacheDManager.aspx http://allegiance.chi-town.com/Download.aspx?dl=Releases/MemCacheDManager_1_0_3_0.msi&rurl=MemCacheDManager.aspx

To unpack the msi:

msiexec /a Releases_MemCacheDManager_1_0_3_0.msi /qb TARGETDIR=c:\memcached

Answer 3

Memcached 1.4.5 binary for win x64 can be found here: http://downloads.northscale.com/memcached-1.4.5-amd64.zip

Another option would be to install Couchbase Server 1.8.0 x64 from here: http://www.couchbase.com/download, the bundled memcached seems to be version 1.7.1.1 (sounds like an internal version, I can't tell which is the real one)

As for running memcached as a service, this tutorial might be enough:

http://www.richardnichols.net/2010/08/install-memcached-on-windows-server/

Answer 4

North Scale labs have released a build of memcached 1.4.4 for Windows x64:

http://blog.couchbase.com/memcached-windows-64-bit-pre-release-available

http://labs.northscale.com/memcached-packages/

UPDATE: they have recently released Memcached Server - still FREE but enhanced distro with clustering, web-based admin/stats UI etc. (I'm not related to them in any way) Check it out at http://northscale.com/products/memcached.html and download at: http://www.northscale.com/download.php?a=d

UPDATE 2: NorthScale Memcached is no longer available as a standalone download. Now they have made it part of their commercial No-SQL DB offering called Membase. It can be configured to run in Memcached-only mode (i.e. without persistence) and there's a 100% free version too. Check it out here: http://www.membase.org/downloads

UPDATE 3: MemBase has slept with CouchDB and produced a hybrid product offering, called CouchBase. They still do offer a free "Community" version at http://www.couchbase.com/download

Answer 5

Up-to-date Binaries

NorthScale has really old versions (the newest is 1.4.5 which is from April 2010) but there's a guy who offers 64-bit Memcached binaries for Windows compiled using Cygwin (but they don't require it installed) in his GitHub repository github.com/nono303/memcached.

For example, the binaries of the most recently released version (as of writing this answer) 1.5.16 are here. There're both 32 and 64-bit versions.

Memcached as a Windows Service

If you want to install it as a Windows service, you can use for example the open-source Non-Sucking Service Manager:

nssm install memcached c:\path\to\memcached.exe
nssm start memcached

See the documentation for details.

Answer 6

I personally feel that you'd have to recompile the application using a 64-bit compiler (obviously on a 64-bit machine) to get the most of Memcached on a 64-bit platform. This may not be an easy task depending on the code. If it was written with 64-bit portability in mind then it could be a simple recompile. If it hasn't, then you could well be up for quite a bit of patching before getting it to build.. and then you'd have to verify that you haven't broken anything!

I don't think you're overestimating the differences between 32 and 64-bit at all. A common mistake is to assume that the job is a simple recompile when in fact it isn't. There are more portability issues than most people realise. Just because the application builds and you end up with a binary, it doesn't mean that the binary is going to behave as it should. Especially when it may interact with other 32-bit code.

Having said that, it might be worth giving it a spin!

Good luck. Cheers!

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@Lars: I recommend reading the question before attempting an answer.

@John Sibly & @DannySmurf: given the nature of Memcached and what it aims to achieve, surely you wouldn't want to run a 32-bit version on a 64-bit machine? If you had a 64-bit capable machine it would make sense to run a 64-bit version to make the most of the features of the hardware.