Ehcache Size Configuration
Since Ehcache 2.5, you’ve got Automatic Resource Control (ARC), which help you to easily tune your cache.
When you think that software is constantly changing, let’s say you have a class that takes 1Kb when instantiated, then you put 1000000 elements in a cache, it takes 1Gb. After a few releases, the class has been modified, it has more fields, and it takes now 2Kb when instantiated, the exact same cache definition will take 2Gb…
ARC helps you to define a cache by memory size. In this example you say you want your cache to use 1Gb of heap memory, it will first hold 1M elements, then 500000… Your tuning is automatically handled…
In case you want to have a look at ARC vs count-based config, here is a summary of options you can use:
Standalone – Cache Configuration
| Count-based | Count-based – legacy pre-2.5 | Size-based (ARC) | |
| Heap | maxEntriesLocalHeap | maxElementsInMemory (deprecated) | maxBytesLocalHeap |
| Off heap | maxMemoryOffHeap | maxMemoryOffHeap | maxBytesLocalOffHeap |
| Disk | maxEntriesLocalDisk | maxElementsOnDisk | maxBytesLocalDisk |
Clustered – Cache Configuration
| Count-based | Count-based – legacy pre-2.5 | Size-based (ARC) | |
| Heap | maxEntriesLocalHeap | maxElementsInMemory (deprecated) | maxBytesLocalHeap |
| Off heap | maxMemoryOffHeap | maxMemoryOffHeap | maxBytesLocalOffHeap |
| Disk | NA | maxElementsOnDisk | NA |
more info on Ehcache ARC
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Daniel Slazer replied on Tue, 2012/06/12 - 12:35pm