The 'persistence' section of INFO output now contains additional four
fields related to RDB and AOF persistence:
rdb_last_bgsave_time_sec Duration of latest BGSAVE in sec.
rdb_current_bgsave_time_sec Duration of current BGSAVE in sec.
aof_last_rewrite_time_sec Duration of latest AOF rewrite in sec.
aof_current_rewrite_time_sec Duration of current AOF rewrite in sec.
The 'current' fields are set to -1 if a BGSAVE / AOF rewrite is not in
progress. The 'last' fileds are set to -1 if no previous BGSAVE / AOF
rewrites were performed.
Additionally a few fields in the persistence section were renamed for
consistency:
changes_since_last_save -> rdb_changes_since_last_save
bgsave_in_progress -> rdb_bgsave_in_progress
last_save_time -> rdb_last_save_time
last_bgsave_status -> rdb_last_bgsave_status
bgrewriteaof_in_progress -> aof_rewrite_in_progress
bgrewriteaof_scheduled -> aof_rewrite_scheduled
After the renaming, fields in the persistence section start with rdb_ or
aof_ prefix depending on the persistence method they describe.
The field 'loading' and related fields are not prefixed because they are
unique for both the persistence methods.
Redis now refuses accepting write queries if RDB persistence is
configured, but RDB snapshots can't be generated for some reason.
The status of the latest background save operation is now exposed
in the INFO output as well. This fixes issue #90.
The cron is responsible for expiring keys. When keys are expired at
load time, it is possible that the snapshot of a master node gets
modified. This can in turn lead to inconsistencies in the data set.
A more concrete example of this behavior follows. A user reported a
slave that would show an monotonically increase input buffer length,
shortly after completing a SYNC. Also, `INFO` output showed a single
blocked client, which could only be the master link. Investigation
showed that indeed the `BRPOP` command was fed by the master. This
command can only end up in the stream of write operations when it did
NOT block, and effectively executed `RPOP`. However, when the key
involved in the `BRPOP` is expired BEFORE the command is executed, the
client executing it will block. The client in this case, is the master
link.