Re: [infinispan-dev] ISPN-3051 configuration

On 9 September 2013 10:37, Pedro Ruivo <pedro(a)infinispan.org&gt; wrote: > > > On 09/09/2013 10:18 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". > > I think capacity is a good name... +1 "capacityFactor"

> >> >> 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. > > My vote is to having it per cache, so we can support use cases like this: > having 2 caches in the same node but one is more prioritized/requested > than the other and you may want to keep more data for the prioritized cache. +1 to have it cache specific. A node could be interested in participating with some caches but not needing a high degree of locality, while being more interested in keeping as much as possible in memory for a different Cache.

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