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Maysam Yabandeh commented on HADOOP-11301:
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[~stack], this test requires updateAttrCache to be invoked upon each 
updateJmxCache call. 
{code}
  public void testGetMetricsAndJmx() throws Exception {
...
    Thread.sleep(100); // skip JMX cache TTL
    assertEquals(0L, (Number)sa.getAttribute("C1"));
{code}
At this point I am not sure whether the rest of hadoop depends on this or the 
unit test demands are broader than what the users of jmx actually need. A safer 
option is to preserve backward compatibility and invoke updateAttrCache all the 
time. Let me know your thoughts on this.

> [optionally] update jmx cache to drop old metrics
> -------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-11301
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-11301
>             Project: Hadoop Common
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Maysam Yabandeh
>            Assignee: Maysam Yabandeh
>         Attachments: HADOOP-11301.v01.patch, HADOOP-11301.v02.patch, 
> HADOOP-11301.v03.patch
>
>
> MetricsSourceAdapter::updateJmxCache() skips updating the info cache if no 
> new metric is added since last time:
> {code}
>       int oldCacheSize = attrCache.size();
>       int newCacheSize = updateAttrCache();
>       if (oldCacheSize < newCacheSize) {
>         updateInfoCache();
>       }
> {code}
> This behavior is not desirable in some applications. For example nntop 
> (HDFS-6982) reports the top users via jmx. The list is updated after each 
> report. The previously reported top users hence should be removed from the 
> cache upon each report request.
> In our production run of nntop we made a change to ignore the size check and 
> always perform updateInfoCache. I am planning to submit a patch including 
> this change. The feature can be enabled by a configuration parameter.



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