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 Mutilate is a memcached load generator designed for high request
 rates, good tail-latency measurements, and realistic request stream
 generation.
+
+Requirements
+============
+
+1. A C++0x compiler
+2. scons
+3. libevent
+4. gengetopt
+5. zeromq (optional)
+
+Building
+========
+
+    apt-get install scons libevent-dev gengetopt libzmq-dev
+    scons
+