From 712656e8481f768470af82503dd84695496cd0a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: antirez Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 17:53:18 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Sentinel: added documentation about slave-priority in redis.conf --- redis.conf | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/redis.conf b/redis.conf index ed0e2f0e..751a3eb0 100644 --- a/redis.conf +++ b/redis.conf @@ -196,6 +196,21 @@ slave-read-only yes # # repl-timeout 60 +# The slave priority is an integer number published by Redis in the INFO output. +# It is used by Redis Sentinel in order to select a slave to promote into a +# master if the master is no longer working correctly. +# +# A slave with a low priority number is considered better for promotion, so +# for instance if there are three slaves with priority 10, 100, 25 Sentinel will +# pick the one wtih priority 10, that is the lowest. +# +# However a special priority of 0 marks the slave as not able to perform the +# role of master, so a slave with priority of 0 will never be selected by +# Redis Sentinel for promotion. +# +# By default the priority is 100. +slave-priority 100 + ################################## SECURITY ################################### # Require clients to issue AUTH before processing any other