"That cache retains at least 50 entries " This means The Cache retains 50 
entries totally, or The Cache retains at least 50 entries per Channel?

On Thursday, February 11, 2016 at 2:30:58 AM UTC+8, Adam Fraser wrote:
>
> Jens is correct that channels are fairly lightweight, but there are a few 
> additional details you may want to take into consideration while evaluating 
> your design:
>
> 1. Adding/removing users to/from channels is a more computationally 
> expensive operation than adding/removing documents to/from a channel.  When 
> a user is added to a channel, a Couchbase view call is required to 
> recalculate that user's channel access.  When a document is added to a 
> channel, it's just an in-memory operation to add that to the cache for that 
> channel.  Frequency subscription/unsubscription from a channel is going to 
> be a relatively expensive operation.
> 2. Sync Gateway maintains an in-memory cache of recent changes to a 
> channel.  That cache retains at least 50 entries (entries beyond 50 will be 
> expire out of the cache).  If most of your channels are shallow (<50 docs), 
> it means that Sync Gateway will be attempting to cache a large fraction of 
> your total docs in memory.  This will probably need to be considered when 
> sizing your SG node(s).
> 3. Although channels are lightweight, I'd still expect you to see some 
> increase in CPU requirements as you increase the number of channels per 
> user, particularly as you get into thousands of channels per user.  Each 
> replication is making a _changes request that's going to need to check each 
> of those channels for changes.  
>
> I don't think any of these are barriers to your design as described, but I 
> wanted to share the details as additional context.
>
> Thanks,
> Adam
>

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