[infinispan-dev] ISPN-3051 configuration

[Tristan Tarrant]

On 09/09/2013 11:18 AM, Dan Berindei 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".
Since this is "per-node", you want to use the "node" word in there, so 
"nodeCapacity" would be good. Can this value change at runtime ?
>
> 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.
Yes, global sounds good. And don't forget server :)

Tristan