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Jeff
Jeff

Reputation: 2071

Running Redis on Windows as service

I have followed all the suggestions I can find.
I am running the current version on redis on windows 2008 I can run fin from command line I can install the service but it doesnt run

I do... redis-server --service-install redis.windows.conf and get "redis successfully installed as a service"

Then I try to start the service doing... redis-server --service-start redis.windows.conf --loglevel verbose and get Redis service failed to start

I have made sure I have the .net framework 4.5.2 installed, I have tried with the firewall off and have played with security on the folder.

Anyone have any ideas?

(Merry Christmas all)

Upvotes: 14

Views: 13227

Answers (3)

Ako
Ako

Reputation: 1221

In my case the default commandline config did not have logging enabled and the service one did. And no place where it complains about that. Try creating the directory ./Logs.

Upvotes: 9

Chaffelson
Chaffelson

Reputation: 1269

Old question, but I came across it while trying to get a Win7x64 install working using binaries Redis-x64-2.8.2101. Couldn't get it to start despite fiddling with various options, no meaningful error given when run with the config, and only an apparently spurious disk space error when run natively.

There appears to be a issue on the github related, linked here for future benefit: https://github.com/MSOpenTech/redis/issues/267

Upvotes: 2

Neil
Neil

Reputation: 831

Start redis server from the command line instead of as a service and it will display a more useful error message. If you are just using the default configuration it is most likely a problem with the maxmemory/maxheap configuration. 

C:\redis>redis-server.exe redis.windows.conf
[1576] 04 Feb 10:32:54.172 #
The Windows version of Redis allocates a memory mapped heap for sharing with
the forked process used for persistence operations. In order to share this
memory, Windows allocates from the system paging file a portion equal to the
size of the Redis heap. At this time there is insufficient contiguous free
space available in the system paging file for this operation (Windows error
0x5AF). To work around this you may either increase the size of the system
paging file, or decrease the size of the Redis heap with the --maxheap flag.
Sometimes a reboot will defragment the system paging file sufficiently for
this operation to complete successfully.

Please see the documentation included with the binary distributions for more
details on the --maxheap flag.

Redis can not continue. Exiting.

Upvotes: 15

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