Is is safe to use my redis for bull queue and also as a cache?

[Rodrigo-JM]

Hey guys,

I want to reuse my redis as a cache. Right now it's only being use for my queues.
Was wondering if there might be any conflicts or is it completely safe. Btw, my cache keys wouldn't have anything to do with queues and bull...

My initial feeling is that it is safe, but I am not a bull specialist.

[manast]

As long as the keys do not collide it is OK, however, you must use the noeviction max memory policy for your queues to work properly: https://redis.io/docs/reference/eviction/

[Rodrigo-JM]

Gotcha. I reckon this is so that my queues don’t get evicted once I reach maxmemory. In my particular case I won’t be storing not nearly as much data. I just need to cache a single route that has been throwing timeouts on me. Thanks for the response!

[manast]

You must use the noeviction max memory policy to avoid strange errors and problems.