Benefit of running redis as a daemon

Posted by Justin Meltzer on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Justin Meltzer
Published on 2012-07-01T20:51:27Z Indexed on 2012/07/01 21:17 UTC
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I'm trying to understand what the benefit of running redis as a daemon is. The redis default configuration seems not to run redis as a daemon, but locally on Mac OS X I added it to LaunchAgents, so I'm guessing it is running as a daemon anyway?

Also on my remote application which is running on a linux server, since it won't have LaunchAgents (as far as I'm aware) will I have to run redis as a daemon? What will be the benefit of doing so?

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