/** this is not supposed to get called unless you actually run redis on port 9999 :P */
 public void run() {
   final byte[] key = "foo".getBytes();
   for (; ; ) {
     try {
       @SuppressWarnings("unused")
       Future<Long> fcntr = jredis.incr(key);
     } catch (Throwable t) {
       t.printStackTrace();
     }
   }
 }