I have tried on two different servers to get beanstalkd up and running and do a couple tests (locally on MacOSX compiled from source, and on a CentOS server installed with yum)

I can get the server running either with

sudo beanstalkd -d -p 11300

or

sudo beanstalkd -p 11300 &

I then tried using the php lib and it just froze. Connecting directly:

telnet localhost 11300

I do the following to mimic the PHP test script:

use foo
USING foo
put 0 0 120 5
hello
INSERTED 1
reserve-with-timeout 0
TIMED_OUT

If I just run

reserve

It's stuck indefinitely. Any ideas?