Hi folks,

Is there a technical description of how the DistributedMapCacheServer
(DMCS) persistence works?  I've noticed the following on our cluster:

- I have the DMCS configured on port 4557 as FIFO with max 100,000 entries,
and have specified a persistence directory
- I am using DetectDuplicate with the DMCS, and the individual key length
is 80 bytes, with a Description length of 1 byte.  By my count, this should
result in a pure data size of 7.7MB.
- I notice that the snapshot file in the persistence directory appears to
continue growing past the 100,000 limit, though this may be expected
depending on the implementation.  Since I know that the key will contain
"json" in it, I can run the following command to count the number of
possible keys in the snapshot file (though I'm not sure if this is a good
way of measuring how many keys are actually cached): grep -oa json snapshot
| wc -l
- When the snapshot file reaches around 3GB, the DMCS has a hard time
staying up, and frequently becomes unreachable (netstat -tulpn | grep 4557
shows nothing).  At this point, in order to restore functionality I delete
the persistence directory and let it start over.

So my main questions are:
- How are the snapshot and partition files structured, and how can I
estimate how many keys are actually cached at a given time?
- Is the described behavior indicative of the cache exceeding the
configured max number of keys?

Thanks,
Joe

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