[infinispan-dev] ISPN-3051 configuration

[Ray Tsang]

Capacity factor? Capacity weight?

On Sep 9, 2013, at 2:18, Dan Berindei <dan.berindei at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi guys
>
> As you know, I'm working on ISPN-3051, allowing each node to take a higher or lower proportion of the entries in the cache. I've implemented this by adding a float "loadFactor" setting in each node's configuration, with 1 being the default and any positive value being accepted (including 0).
>
> There are two questions I wanted to ask you about the configuration:
>
> 1. What do you think about the "loadFactor" name? I started having doubts about it, since it has a very different meaning in HashMap. I have come up with a couple alternatives, but I don't love any of them: "proportionalLoad" and "proportionalCapacity".
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> 2. Where should we put this setting? I have added it as CacheConfiguration.clustering().hash().loadFactor(), but I can't think of a reason for having different values for each cache, so we might as well put it in the global configuration.
>
> Cheers
> Dan
>
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