https://github.com/beanstalkd/beanstalkd

Beanstalk is a simple, fast work queue.
https://github.com/beanstalkd/beanstalkd

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Beanstalk is a simple, fast work queue.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/beanstalkd/beanstalkd
• Owner: beanstalkd
• License: other
• Created: 2008-03-31T20:20:41.000Z (over 17 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2025-03-18T15:40:18.000Z (8 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-23T17:19:34.899Z (6 months ago)
• Language: C
• Homepage: https://beanstalkd.github.io/
• Size: 1.27 MB
• Stars: 6,612
• Watchers: 272
• Forks: 880
• Open Issues: 43
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
  • Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

          
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# beanstalkd

Simple and fast general purpose work queue.

https://beanstalkd.github.io/

See [doc/protocol.txt](https://github.com/beanstalkd/beanstalkd/blob/master/doc/protocol.txt)

for details of the network protocol.

Please note that this project is released with a Contributor

Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree

to abide by its terms. See CodeOfConduct.txt for details.

## Quick Start

    $ make

    $ ./beanstalkd

also try,

    $ ./beanstalkd -h

    $ ./beanstalkd -VVV

    $ make CFLAGS=-O2

    $ make CC=clang

    $ make check

    $ make install

    $ make install PREFIX=/usr

Requires Linux (2.6.17 or later), Mac OS X, FreeBSD, or Illumos.

Currently beanstalkd is tested with GCC and clang, but it should work

with any compiler that supports C99.

Uses ronn to generate the manual.

See http://github.com/rtomayko/ronn.

## Subdirectories

- `adm`	- files useful for system administrators

- `ct`	- testing tool; vendored from https://github.com/kr/ct

- `doc`	- documentation

- `pkg`	- scripts to make releases

## Tests

Unit tests are in test*.c. See https://github.com/kr/ct for

information on how to write them.