---
name: "syncache-drb"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "syncache"
version: "1.4-1.3"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/syncache-drb"
---

# syncache-drb(1)

SynCache dRuby object cache server

## NAME

syncache-drb - SynCache dRuby object cache server

## SYNOPSIS

**syncache-drb** \[ **options** \] \[ **URI** \]

## DESCRIPTION

**syncache-drb** starts a Distributed Ruby server providing a SynCache::Cache object.

SynCache::Cache is a thread-safe time-limited object cache with flexible replacement strategy.

## OPTIONS

- **URI**

  A URI with druby: schema that the DRb server binds to, default is **druby://\*:9000**

- **--help**

  Display usage information and quit.

- **--ttl** SECONDS

  Time-to-live value for cache entries, default is 24 hours.

- **--size** ENTRIES

  Maximum number of objects in cache, default is 10000.

- **--flush-delay** SECONDS

  Rate-limit flush operations. If less than that number of seconds has passed since last flush, next flush will be delayed. Default is no rate limit.

- **--user** USER

  Run as USER if started as root. Default is nobody.

- **--error-log** ERROR\_LOG\_PATH

  File to write errors to. Default is /dev/null. When run as root, the file is chowned to USER:adm.

- **--debug**

  Enable debug mode. If an error log is specified with --error-log, all messages will be sent there instead of syslog.

- **--pidfile** PATH

  Path to pidfile. By default, pidfile is created under /var/run/syncache-drb/ when run as root, or under $TMPDIR otherwise. Location should be writeable by USER.

- **--foreground**

  Do not daemonize, switch to a different user, create pidfile, redirect output, or log to syslog.

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Dmitry Borodaenko \<angdraug@debian.org\>. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU GPL version 3 or later.