Hi Kevin, This is not a brand new discussion: http://apache-ignite-developers.2346864.n4.nabble.com/Global-off-heap-memory-limit-td11267.html
Basically, global limit could be useful, but we decided not to do that because 2.0 will completely change the configuration anyway. -Val On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 4:45 AM, Kevin Daly <ke...@meta.com> wrote: > We are encountering a limitation with Ignite Cache and swapping to disk, > the issue that we are running into is that for some collections we need > this tier of caching. > > on_heap -> off_heap -> swap to disk. > > The issue is that to get the swap to disk, we have to set a maximum off > heap size for each individual cache. Since we have an API that allows you > to create caches "ad-hoc", we don't really know how much memory to allocate > to each individual cache. So: > > > - Is there any way to globally configure an off heap "pool" that all > caches will use, when the limit is reached, then swap to disk? > - If not, are there any workarounds or suggestions? > - If not, would the ignite team be interested in having our team work on > this as a future advancement of ignite? > > Thanks in advance. > > Kevin >
