Also, since 3.5, there are “container” nodes that auto-delete once emptied of 
children.

-JZ

> On Mar 18, 2016, at 11:49 AM, Flavio Junqueira <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> It is currently as Jordan says, although it is not entirely unreasonable to 
> think of memory as cache and keep in memory only the current working set, 
> possibly using say an SSD to store the remaining part of the state that you 
> don't want to keep in memory. One key issue here is that if you have a pretty 
> large state (that you don't want to keep all in memory), then you'll end up 
> increasing worst-case recovery time.
> 
> We certainly do not have any kind of expiration mechanism for znodes other 
> than the ephemeral flag, which is associated to sessions.
> 
> -Flavio
> 
>> On 18 Mar 2016, at 16:38, ibrahim El-sanosi <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Thank you for replaying.
>> 
>> 
>> Take this example, Zookeeper started on 1/1/2015, and assume ZK servers are
>> never crashed. Also, the ZK are very busy, reciveing continusly write
>> requests from clients and accordingly snapshots are generated overtime. On
>> 1/3/2015, what  Znodes will be in memory data tree? do all Znodes still
>> store in memory (from 1/1/2015 to 1/3/2015) as there is no crashed occur.
>> Or Dsnapshhot is taken the data tree is
>> 
>> 
>> Note that  I am not asking about data in log or snapshoot. I am asking
>> about the current data in memory.
>> 
>> On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 4:12 PM, Flavio Junqueira <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Ibrahim,
>>> 
>>> Are you asking about how we compact old logs? We do it by taking snapshots
>>> so that upon recovery, we only load the latest snapshot and replay the txn
>>> log from the snapshot tag. The snapshot tag is the last zxid committed when
>>> we start producing the snapshot.
>>> 
>>> We don't actually delete anything, though, unless you intentionally turn
>>> on auto purge:
>>> 
>>> https://zookeeper.apache.org/doc/trunk/zookeeperAdmin.html#sc_administering
>>> <
>>> https://zookeeper.apache.org/doc/trunk/zookeeperAdmin.html#sc_administering
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> -Flavio
>>> 
>>>> On 18 Mar 2016, at 16:05, ibrahim El-sanosi <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> 
>>>> Assume the Zookeeper have been running for about one year (from 1/1/2015
>>>> until now), how does ZooKeeper deal with old delivered write requests (To
>>>> optimize a memory used) (say from 1/1/2015 to 03/04/2015). I am assuming
>>>> the old delivered request are no longer used.
>>>> 
>>>> On the other words, what strategy ZK does to find and delete unused
>>> Znodes?
>>>> 
>>>> Ibrahim
>>> 
>>> 
> 

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