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libmemcached Documentation

Synopsis

memping [options] [server]

Test for availability of a server

Description

memping can be used to ping a memcached server to see if it is accepting connections.

Options

-h|--help

Display help.

-V|--version

Display version.

-q|--quiet

Operate quietly.

-v|--verbose

Operate more verbosely.

-d|--debug

See -v|--verbose​.

-u|--username <username>

Use username for SASL authentication.

-p|--password <password>

Use password for SASL authentication.

-s|--servers <list of servers>

Specify the list of servers as hostname[:port][,hostname[:port]...]​.

Environment

MEMCACHED_SERVERS

Specify a list of servers.

Notes

Program Prefix

The prefix of this program is variable, i.e. it can be configured at build time.

Usually the client programs of libmemcached-awesome are prefixed with mem, like memcat or memcp​.

It can be configured, though, to replace the prefix with something else like mc, in case of that, the client programs of libmemcached-awesome would be called mccat, mccp, etc. respectively.

See Also

memcached(1) <https://linux.die.net/man/1/memcached> libmemcached(3) <https://linux.die.net/man/3/libmemcached>

Referenced By

libmemcached(3).

Sep 01, 2026 1.1 libmemcached-awesome