Are you sure both representations are kept? MarshalledValueInterceptor.visitGetKeyValueCommand() should call MarshalledValue.compact just before returning, which should keep only one representation.
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Mircea Markus <mmar...@redhat.com> wrote: > Hi, > > We have the following behaviour when storeAsBinary is enabled: > - when an entry is added it is initially stored in binary format (byte[]) > - when it is read from an *owning node*, it is unmarshalled and the object > reference is cached in memory together with the byte representation > - the object reference is only cleaned up when cache.compact() is invoked > explicitly > > Assuming a key is read uniformly on all the nodes, after a while the > system ends up with all the entries stored twice: the byte[] and the object > in unserialized form. Of course this can be mitigated by asking the users > to invoke Cache.compact - but that's quite confusing and not very user > friendly as the user needs to be concerned with memory management. > > Can anybody think of some reasons why the value is kept twice? I mean > besides optimising for local gets, which I think is not a good enough > reason given the potentially huge memory consumption and the complexity > added. > > Cheers, > -- > Mircea Markus > Infinispan lead (www.infinispan.org) > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > infinispan-dev mailing list > infinispan-dev@lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/infinispan-dev >
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