[infinispan-dev] Infinispan 4.1 | Eviction policies for Memcached protocol

[Manik Surtani]

On 23 Sep 2010, at 15:53, Vladimir Blagojevic wrote:

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> On 2010-09-23, at 10:49 AM, Galder Zamarreño wrote:
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>> On Sep 23, 2010, at 4:41 PM, Vladimir Blagojevic wrote:
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>>> Owen,
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>>> By default all entries are immortal, that is, their expiration and lifespan are -1. Being immortal they are subject to eviction policies. As soon as they are not immortal, as you noticed, they are not subject to eviction policies and container size indeed can grow above limit specified in maxEntries. I will make sure that this is very clear in documentation. I admit it is not now :(
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>> Hmmmm, should they really be exclusive? Just because you want your entries to expire if not used in 1h, you shouldn't give up on controlling the size of the cache, shouldn't you?
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> Yeah, maybe you are right. It is more intuitive that way. I admit, we really convoluted this one :)
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> Manik, everyone else?

Yeah you should be able to use both.  That was the case in 4.0.x.

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