Hi Erick,

In the situation when a new cache entry arrives to the write-behind store and there is no more space to queue it up for later flushing the store will perform a flush of a single already queued entry from the Thread that is writing the newly arrived entry. It means that a cache.put(...) that runs into the write-behind space limit will be synchronous and no data will be lost.

Regards,
Denis

On 1/11/2016 9:50 AM, Erik Vanherck wrote:
Hi,

I’m wondering what guarantees, if any, the write behind mode actually has when working with a volume of input which exceeds it’s specified volume to write to the backing store ?

For example, suppose I do this


final CacheConfiguration<Long, byte[]> rccfg = new CacheConfiguration<>();
rccfg.setBackups(2);
rccfg.setManagementEnabled(true);
rccfg.setWriteSynchronizationMode(CacheWriteSynchronizationMode.FULL_SYNC);// wait until backups are written
rccfg.setCacheMode(CacheMode.PARTITIONED);
rccfg.setEvictionPolicy(new LruEvictionPolicy<Long, byte[]>());
rccfg.setMemoryMode(CacheMemoryMode.OFFHEAP_TIERED);
rccfg.setLoadPreviousValue(false);
rccfg.setName("Resources-UserStore");
rccfg.setOffHeapMaxMemory(512 * 1024 * 1024); // in bytes
rccfg.setReadFromBackup(true);
rccfg.setStartSize(5000);
rccfg.setCacheStoreFactory(new ResourceCacheStoreFactory(fDiskStorage));
rccfg.setReadThrough(true);
rccfg.setWriteThrough(true);
rccfg.setWriteBehindEnabled(true);
rccfg.setWriteBehindFlushFrequency(2 * 60  * 1000); // in millis
rccfg.setWriteBehindFlushSize(100);
rccfg.setSwapEnabled(false);
rccfg.setRebalanceBatchSize(2 * 1024 * 1024);
rccfg.setRebalanceThrottle(200);// in millis

What happens if writes keep coming in, but the write behind threads can’t keep up ? Either because the Store is too slow to accept them all or because the flush size and flush frequency need to be broken ? Will it start loosing data if the memory fills up and it needs to evict entries or does it increase the frequency and or blocks ?

PS: took me a while to figure out that I had to enable WriteThrough to enable WriteBehind .. seemed counterintuitive to me.

Cheers,
Erik Vanherck

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