void initServer(void) {
    int j;

    signal(SIGHUP, SIG_IGN);
    signal(SIGPIPE, SIG_IGN);
    setupSignalHandlers();

    if (server.syslog_enabled) {
        openlog(server.syslog_ident, LOG_PID | LOG_NDELAY | LOG_NOWAIT,
            server.syslog_facility);
    }

    server.pid = getpid();
    server.current_client = NULL;
    server.clients = listCreate();
    server.clients_to_close = listCreate();
    server.slaves = listCreate();
    server.monitors = listCreate();
    server.clients_pending_write = listCreate();
    server.slaveseldb = -1; /* Force to emit the first SELECT command. */
    server.unblocked_clients = listCreate();
    server.ready_keys = listCreate();
    server.clients_waiting_acks = listCreate();
    server.get_ack_from_slaves = 0;
    server.clients_paused = 0;
    server.system_memory_size = zmalloc_get_memory_size();

    createSharedObjects();
    adjustOpenFilesLimit();
    server.el = aeCreateEventLoop(server.maxclients+CONFIG_FDSET_INCR);
    server.db = zmalloc(sizeof(redisDb)*server.dbnum);

    /* Open the TCP listening socket for the user commands. */
    if (server.port != 0 &&
        listenToPort(server.port,server.ipfd,&server.ipfd_count) == C_ERR)
        exit(1);

    /* Open the listening Unix domain socket. */
    if (server.unixsocket != NULL) {
        unlink(server.unixsocket); /* don't care if this fails */
        server.sofd = anetUnixServer(server.neterr,server.unixsocket,
            server.unixsocketperm, server.tcp_backlog);
        if (server.sofd == ANET_ERR) {
            serverLog(LL_WARNING, "Opening Unix socket: %s", server.neterr);
            exit(1);
        }
        anetNonBlock(NULL,server.sofd);
    }

    /* Abort if there are no listening sockets at all. */
    if (server.ipfd_count == 0 && server.sofd < 0) {
        serverLog(LL_WARNING, "Configured to not listen anywhere, exiting.");
        exit(1);
    }

    /* Create the Redis databases, and initialize other internal state. */
    for (j = 0; j < server.dbnum; j++) {
        server.db[j].dict = dictCreate(&dbDictType,NULL);
        server.db[j].expires = dictCreate(&keyptrDictType,NULL);
        server.db[j].blocking_keys = dictCreate(&keylistDictType,NULL);
        server.db[j].ready_keys = dictCreate(&setDictType,NULL);
        server.db[j].watched_keys = dictCreate(&keylistDictType,NULL);
        server.db[j].eviction_pool = evictionPoolAlloc();
        server.db[j].id = j;
        server.db[j].avg_ttl = 0;
    }
    server.pubsub_channels = dictCreate(&keylistDictType,NULL);
    server.pubsub_patterns = listCreate();
    listSetFreeMethod(server.pubsub_patterns,freePubsubPattern);
    listSetMatchMethod(server.pubsub_patterns,listMatchPubsubPattern);
    server.cronloops = 0;
    server.rdb_child_pid = -1;
    server.aof_child_pid = -1;
    server.rdb_child_type = RDB_CHILD_TYPE_NONE;
    server.rdb_bgsave_scheduled = 0;
    aofRewriteBufferReset();
    server.aof_buf = sdsempty();
    server.lastsave = time(NULL); /* At startup we consider the DB saved. */
    server.lastbgsave_try = 0;    /* At startup we never tried to BGSAVE. */
    server.rdb_save_time_last = -1;
    server.rdb_save_time_start = -1;
    server.dirty = 0;
    resetServerStats();
    /* A few stats we don't want to reset: server startup time, and peak mem. */
    server.stat_starttime = time(NULL);
    server.stat_peak_memory = 0;
    server.resident_set_size = 0;
    server.lastbgsave_status = C_OK;
    server.aof_last_write_status = C_OK;
    server.aof_last_write_errno = 0;
    server.repl_good_slaves_count = 0;
    updateCachedTime();

    /* Create the serverCron() time event, that's our main way to process
     * background operations. */
    if(aeCreateTimeEvent(server.el, 1, serverCron, NULL, NULL) == AE_ERR) {
        serverPanic("Can't create the serverCron time event.");
        exit(1);
    }

    /* Create an event handler for accepting new connections in TCP and Unix
     * domain sockets. */
    for (j = 0; j < server.ipfd_count; j++) {
        if (aeCreateFileEvent(server.el, server.ipfd[j], AE_READABLE,
            acceptTcpHandler,NULL) == AE_ERR)
            {
                serverPanic(
                    "Unrecoverable error creating server.ipfd file event.");
            }
    }
    if (server.sofd > 0 && aeCreateFileEvent(server.el,server.sofd,AE_READABLE,
        acceptUnixHandler,NULL) == AE_ERR) serverPanic("Unrecoverable error creating server.sofd file event.");

    /* Open the AOF file if needed. */
    if (server.aof_state == AOF_ON) {
        server.aof_fd = open(server.aof_filename,
                               O_WRONLY|O_APPEND|O_CREAT,0644);
        if (server.aof_fd == -1) {
            serverLog(LL_WARNING, "Can't open the append-only file: %s",
                strerror(errno));
            exit(1);
        }
    }

    /* 32 bit instances are limited to 4GB of address space, so if there is
     * no explicit limit in the user provided configuration we set a limit
     * at 3 GB using maxmemory with 'noeviction' policy'. This avoids
     * useless crashes of the Redis instance for out of memory. */
    if (server.arch_bits == 32 && server.maxmemory == 0) {
        serverLog(LL_WARNING,"Warning: 32 bit instance detected but no memory limit set. Setting 3 GB maxmemory limit with 'noeviction' policy now.");
        server.maxmemory = 3072LL*(1024*1024); /* 3 GB */
        server.maxmemory_policy = MAXMEMORY_NO_EVICTION;
    }

    if (server.cluster_enabled) clusterInit();
    replicationScriptCacheInit();
    scriptingInit(1);
    slowlogInit();
    latencyMonitorInit();
    bioInit();
}

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