On Jan 27, 2012, at 4:12 AM, Manik Surtani wrote:

> I really didn't want to do this, but it looks like a 5.1.1 will be necessary. 
>  The biggest (critical, IMO, for 5.1.1) issues I see are:
> 
> 1. https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-1786 - I presume this has to do with 
> a bug Mircea spotted that virtual nodes were not being enabled by the config 
> parser.  Which meant that even in the case of tests enabling virtual nodes, 
> we still saw uneven distribution and hence poor performance (well spotted, 
> Mircea).  
> 2. Related to 1, I don't think there is a JIRA for this yet, to change the 
> default number of virtual nodes from 1 to 100 or so.  After we profile and 
> analyse the impact of enabling this by default.  I'm particularly concerned 
> about (a) memory footprint and (b) effects on Hot Rod relaying topology 
> information back to clients.  Maybe 10 is a more sane default as a result.

(b) The memory effects on Hot Rod clients are none since version 1.1 of the 
protocol (included in 5.1). I enhanced the protocol so that clients would 
generate virtual node hashes and so avoid sending them over the wire.

> 3. https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-1788 - config parser out of sync with 
> XSD!
> 4. https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-1798 - forceReturnValues parameter in 
> the RemoteCacheManager.getCache() method is ignored!
> 
> In addition, we may as well have these "nice to have's" in as well:
> 
> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-1787
> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-1793
> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-1795
> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-1789
> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-1784
> 
> What do you think?  Anything else you feel that is crucial for a 5.1.1?  I'd 
> like to do this sooner rather than later, so we can still focus on 5.2.0.  So 
> please respond asap.
> 
> Paul, I'd also like your thoughts on this from an AS7 perspective.
> 
> Cheers
> Manik
> 
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