Interesting. My personal response to that list would be: 1) Binding a specific CPU->NIC like one often does for LB's such as HAProxy is likely more performant.

Interesting. My personal response to that list would be: 1) Binding a specific CPU->NIC like one often does for LB's such as HAProxy is likely more performant. 2) Multiple instances of Redis on a single box; one per physical CPU core 3) I can't argue that it's annoying, but generally with Redis you're going to want shards across physical machines anyway. Not trying to attack, just curious. As you say, that's the beauty of OSS so props to you!