title: Redis on Ubuntu 14.04
body: <p>I installed redis 2.8.12 from ppa but fails to start. Looking at the log this is what I get:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[4886 | signal handler] (1405388991) Received SIGTERM, scheduling shutdown...
  [4886] 14 Jul 20:49:51.561 # User requested shutdown...
  [4886] 14 Jul 20:49:51.561 * Saving the final RDB snapshot before exiting.
  [4886] 14 Jul 20:49:51.566 * DB saved on disk
  [4886] 14 Jul 20:49:51.566 * Removing the pid file.
  [4886] 14 Jul 20:49:51.566 # Redis is now ready to exit, bye bye...
  [6726] 14 Jul 20:56:04.063 # You requested maxclients of 10000 requiring at least 10032 max file descriptors.
  [6726] 14 Jul 20:56:04.063 # Redis can't set maximum open files to 10032 because of OS error: Operation not permitted.
  [6726] 14 Jul 20:56:04.063 # Current maximum open files is 1024. maxclients has been reduced to 4064 to compensate for low ulimit. If you need higher maxclients increase 'ulimit -n'.
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  [6726] 14 Jul 20:56:04.064 # Server started, Redis version 2.8.12
  [6726] 14 Jul 20:56:04.064 # WARNING overcommit_memory is set to 0! Background save may fail under low memory condition. To fix this issue add 'vm.overcommit_memory = 1' to /etc/sysctl.conf and then reboot or run the command 'sysctl vm.overcommit_memory=1' for this to take effect.
  [6726] 14 Jul 20:56:04.064 * The server is now ready to accept connections on port 6379
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  <p>I did ran the command <code>sysctl vm.overcommit_memory=1</code> and  rebooted as suggested but did not work. I'm not exactly what to do a this point. Does anybody has an idea?</p>