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Redis 4.x Cookbook
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Redis 4.x Cookbook

by Pengcheng Huang, Zuofei Wang
February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
382 pages
11h 33m
English
Packt Publishing
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When a timeout is set on a Redis key, the expiration time for the key will be stored as an absolute UNIX timestamp. Therefore, even if the Redis Server is down for some time, the expiration timestamp won't be lost and the key will still expire when the server is up again and the clock has passed the UNIX timestamp.

When a key has expired and the client tries to access it, Redis will delete the key from memory immediately. The way Redis deletes a key is known as expiring passively. What if a key has expired but it will never be accessed again? Redis also actively deletes expired keys by running a probabilistic algorithm periodically. Specifically, Redis randomly picks 20 keys associated with the timeout. Expired keys will be ...

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