Running Redis on Windows as service

Question

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)

Answer 1

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.