[infinispan-dev] Infinispan embedded off-heap cache

Emmanuel Bernard emmanuel at hibernate.org
Thu Jan 16 05:10:56 EST 2014


On 15 Jan 2014, at 18:51, cotton-ben <ben.cotton at ALUMNI.RUTGERS.EDU> wrote:

> Nice!  The consequences of our *necessarily* staying on-heap has been a
> "monstrous" experience for us (see
> http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-upwza0_lLn4/TmXB4lKkPKI/AAAAAAAAAHY/9lA7VYCmSkI/s1600/heap_0001.jpg
> ).

As Tristan hinted, can share (worse case privately) the reasons that lead to that horrific experience? This would be very useful to the infinispan team to better shape and explain the off-heap approach. Off-heap does come with non trivial drawbacks around manual garbage collection and memory fragmentation (at least when the data is not homogeneous).

Emmanuel
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