Hi,
I'm actively trying to replace memcached with Infinispan with the memcached server.
Swapping it in with my existing whalin client was very simple, I just had to disable the
binary protocol. The problem I'm facing is that evictions based on maxEntries
aren't working. Here's the configuration I'm using (btw, I've tried
playing with all the parameters by trying different strategies, using DEFAULT
threadPolicy, change wakeUpInterval, and maxEntries by powers of 2.
<infinispan>
<global>
<globalJmxStatistics enabled="true"/>
</global>
<default>
<jmxStatistics enabled="true"/>
<eviction wakeUpInterval="500" maxEntries="1024"
strategy="LIRS" threadPolicy="PIGGYBACK"/>
<expiration maxIdle="3600000" lifespan="-1"/>
</default>
</infinispan>
Infinispan will remove entries that are expired, but it doesn't seem to evict any
items when the cache exceeds the number of maxEntries. I've enabled trace and using
JMX to peer into the number of entries, and I easily exceed the maxEntries by running a
junit test loading it with 10,000 entries.
I noticed in the DefaultDataContainer it only handles immortalEntries with the bounded
concurrency map. Is the memcached server somehow only setting items as mortal entries? If
so, this means that the behavior for this memcached is really deficient, since you're
bound by memory and can't LRU once maxEntries is reached. The only saving grace are
the expiration settings. Is there a suggestion on how I can fix this so I can have the
behavior of LRU with eviction?
Thanks,
Owen
Code from DefaultDataContainer...
protected DefaultDataContainer(int concurrencyLevel, int maxEntries, EvictionStrategy
strategy, EvictionThreadPolicy policy) {
// translate eviction policy and strategy
switch (policy) {
case PIGGYBACK:
case DEFAULT:
evictionListener = new DefaultEvictionListener();
break;
default:
throw new IllegalArgumentException("No such eviction thread policy "
+ strategy);
}
Eviction eviction;
switch (strategy) {
case FIFO:
case UNORDERED:
case LRU:
eviction = Eviction.LRU;
break;
case LIRS:
eviction = Eviction.LIRS;
break;
default:
throw new IllegalArgumentException("No such eviction strategy " +
strategy);
}
immortalEntries = new BoundedConcurrentHashMap<Object,
InternalCacheEntry>(maxEntries, concurrencyLevel, eviction, evictionListener);
mortalEntries = new ConcurrentHashMap<Object, InternalCacheEntry>(64, 0.75f,
concurrencyLevel);
entryFactory = new InternalEntryFactory();
}
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Owen Tran || VP, Engineering || ezRez Software, Inc.