[infinispan-dev] State transfer is transferring the same data twice

[Manik Surtani]

On 15 Jul 2011, at 20:00, Dan Berindei wrote:

> Hi guys
> 
> While fixing https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-1243 I found that in
> certain cases state transfer will copy the in-memory data twice: first
> when copying the in-memory data and then again while copying the
> persistent data.
> 
> I was getting duplicate key exceptions in
> StateTransferManagerImpl.applyPersistentState(), so I changed
> StateTransferManagerImpl.applyInMemoryState() to skip writing to the
> cache store if persistent state transfer is enabled and passivation is
> disabled. That seems to work, but I'm wondering if there are other
> cases that I missed.
> 
> For 5.1, since we're going to use the rehashing code, we can check if
> a key is in memory and not include it again in the persistent state,
> but that seems too intrusive to include in 5.0. WDYT?

Agreed - too intrusive for 5.0 now.

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