Hi, let's look at configuration of LevelDB in Infinispan Server: https://gist.github.com/mgencur/6520948
After investigating what the <expiration> configuration element is good for, I think it's an implementation detail and should be removed. Every time a mortal entry is stored in the cache, it's put (in internal format of the cache store - ExpiryEntry) in an expiryEntryQueue whose size is specified in the configuration through "queue-size" attribute. The path attribute (location of dbExpired) is only used when purge() is called on the cache store. At that moment, all entries that are in the expiryEntryQueue are flushed into dbExpired (location specified through "path"), all the elements from dbExpired are read and if they have expiry time shorter than current time, they are removed from the primary cache store's location, i.e. they are purged. IMO, the location where intermediate (ExpiryEntry) are stored is an implementation (users don't have access to it anyway) detail and the queue-size attribute is a black-box users will never know how to set it. I would suggest hiding these implementation details and simplify the configuration. There are way too many configuration elements already. WDYT? Thanks Martin _______________________________________________ infinispan-dev mailing list infinispan-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/infinispan-dev