Gearman is an open-source job management system that allows you to distribute workloads among multiple computers. It can be used for a variety of tasks, including distributed computing, task distribution, and load balancing. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Gearman on Ubuntu Server.
Before installing any software on Ubuntu, it's always a good idea to update and upgrade your system to ensure that all your packages are up-to-date.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
To install Gearman on Ubuntu Server, run the following command:
sudo apt-get install gearman-job-server
Once you have installed Gearman, you can start the job server using the following command:
sudo service gearman-job-server start
To check the status of the job server, run the following command:
sudo service gearman-job-server status
If the job server is running correctly, you should see the following output:
gearmand (pid xxxx) is running...
If you are using PHP with Gearman, you may want to install the Gearman PHP extension. To install the extension, run the following command:
sudo apt-get install php-gearman
After installing the extension, you will need to restart the Apache web server to load the extension:
sudo service apache2 restart
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install Gearman on Ubuntu Server. With Gearman, you can distribute workloads among multiple computers, making it an ideal tool for distributed computing, task distribution, and load balancing.
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