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+Free & open source, high-performance, distributed memory object caching system.
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+# Supported tags and respective `Dockerfile` links
+
+- [`1.4.21`, `1.4`, `1`, `latest` (*Dockerfile*)](https://github.com/docker-library/memcached/blob/2abd5c1e975313238af4291264902812a04a1815/Dockerfile)
+
+For more information about this image and its history, please see the [relevant
+manifest file
+(`library/memcached`)](https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/blob/master/library/memcached)
+in the [`docker-library/official-images` GitHub
+repo](https://github.com/docker-library/official-images).
+
+# What is Memcached?
+
+Memcached is a general-purpose distributed memory caching system. It is often
+used to speed up dynamic database-driven websites by caching data and objects in
+RAM to reduce the number of times an external data source (such as a database or
+API) must be read.
+
+Memcached's APIs provide a very large hash table distributed across multiple
+machines. When the table is full, subsequent inserts cause older data to be
+purged in least recently used order. Applications using Memcached typically
+layer requests and additions into RAM before falling back on a slower backing
+store, such as a database.
+
+> [wikipedia.org/wiki/Memcached](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memcached)
+
+# How to use this image
+
+    docker run --name my-memcache -d memcached
+
+Start your memcached container with the above command and then you can connect
+you app to it with standard linking:
+
+    docker run --link my-memcache:memcache -d my-app-image
+
+The memcached server information would then be available through the ENV
+variables generated by the link as well as through DNS as `memcache` from
+`/etc/hosts`.
+
+For infomation on configuring your memcached server, see the extensive [wiki](https://code.google.com/p/memcached/wiki/NewStart).
+
+# Known Issues
+
+As of 1.4.21, memcached does not handle `SIGTERM`, so a standard `docker stop`
+will not stop it gracefully, but will resort to `SIGKILL` after the 10 second
+timeout.  Use `docker kill -s INT` to do a clean stop of the memcached
+container.  There is [a PR](https://github.com/memcached/memcached/pull/88) to
+change this behavior upstream.
+
+# License
+
+View [license
+information](https://github.com/memcached/memcached/blob/master/LICENSE) for the
+software contained in this image.
+
+# Supported Docker versions
+
+This image is officially supported on Docker version 1.4.1.
+
+Support for older versions (down to 1.0) is provided on a best-effort basis.
+
+# User Feedback
+
+## Issues
+
+If you have any problems with or questions about this image, please contact us
+ through a [GitHub issue](https://github.com/docker-library/memcached/issues).
+
+You can also reach many of the official image maintainers via the
+`#docker-library` IRC channel on [Freenode](https://freenode.net).
+
+## Contributing
+
+You are invited to contribute new features, fixes, or updates, large or small;
+we are always thrilled to receive pull requests, and do our best to process them
+as fast as we can.
+
+Before you start to code, we recommend discussing your plans 
+through a [GitHub issue](https://github.com/docker-library/memcached/issues), especially for more ambitious
+contributions. This gives other contributors a chance to point you in the right
+direction, give you feedback on your design, and help you find out if someone
+else is working on the same thing.
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+# What is Memcached?
+
+Memcached is a general-purpose distributed memory caching system. It is often
+used to speed up dynamic database-driven websites by caching data and objects in
+RAM to reduce the number of times an external data source (such as a database or
+API) must be read.
+
+Memcached's APIs provide a very large hash table distributed across multiple
+machines. When the table is full, subsequent inserts cause older data to be
+purged in least recently used order. Applications using Memcached typically
+layer requests and additions into RAM before falling back on a slower backing
+store, such as a database.
+
+> [wikipedia.org/wiki/Memcached](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memcached)
+
+# How to use this image
+
+    docker run --name my-memcache -d memcached
+
+Start your memcached container with the above command and then you can connect
+you app to it with standard linking:
+
+    docker run --link my-memcache:memcache -d my-app-image
+
+The memcached server information would then be available through the ENV
+variables generated by the link as well as through DNS as `memcache` from
+`/etc/hosts`.
+
+For infomation on configuring your memcached server, see the extensive [wiki](https://code.google.com/p/memcached/wiki/NewStart).
+
+# Known Issues
+
+As of 1.4.21, memcached does not handle `SIGTERM`, so a standard `docker stop`
+will not stop it gracefully, but will resort to `SIGKILL` after the 10 second
+timeout.  Use `docker kill -s INT` to do a clean stop of the memcached
+container.  There is [a PR](https://github.com/memcached/memcached/pull/88) to
+change this behavior upstream.
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+View [license
+information](https://github.com/memcached/memcached/blob/master/LICENSE) for the
+software contained in this image.