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+Ideally, you want to make a static binary, otherwise the dynamic
+linker pollutes your address space with shared libs right in the
+middle.  (NOTE: actually, this shouldn't matter so much anymore, now
+that we only allocate huge, fixed-size slabs)
+
+Make sure your libevent has epoll (Linux) or kqueue (BSD) support.
+Using poll or select only is slow, and works for testing, but
+shouldn't be used for high-traffic memcache installations.
+
+To build libevent with epoll on Linux, you need two things. First,
+you need /usr/include/sys/epoll.h . To get it, you can install the
+userspace epoll library, epoll-lib. The link to the latest version
+is buried inside
+http://www.xmailserver.org/linux-patches/nio-improve.html ; currently
+it's http://www.xmailserver.org/linux-patches/epoll-lib-0.9.tar.gz .
+If you're having any trouble building/installing it, you can just copy
+epoll.h from that tarball to /usr/include/sys as that's the only thing
+from there that libevent really needs.
+
+Secondly, you need to declare syscall numbers of epoll syscalls, so
+libevent can use them. Put these declarations somewhere
+inside <sys/epoll.h>:
+
+#define __NR_epoll_create               254
+#define __NR_epoll_ctl          255
+#define __NR_epoll_wait         256
+
+After this you should be able to build libevent with epoll support.
+Once you build/install libevent, you don't need <sys/epoll.h> to
+compile memcache or link it against libevent. Don't forget that for epoll
+support to actually work at runtime you need to use a kernel with epoll
+support patch applied, as explained in the README file.
+
+BSD users are luckier, and will get kqueue support by default.
+
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