Lance,

Do you mean soft references?

On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Lance Norskog <goks...@gmail.com> wrote:
> -1 for weak references in caching.
>
> This makes memory management less deterministic (predictable) and at
> peak can cause cache-thrashing. In other words, the worst case gets
> even more worse. When designing a system I want predictability and I
> want to control the worst case, because system meltdowns are caused by
> the worst case. Having thousands of small weak references does the
> opposite.
>
> On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 2:00 AM, Noble Paul (JIRA) <j...@apache.org> wrote:
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>> Noble Paul commented on SOLR-1513:
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>> bq.Google Collections is already checked in as a dependency of Carrot 
>> clustering.
>>
>> in that e need to move it to core.
>>
>> Jason . We do not need to remove the original option. We can probably add an 
>> extra parameter say softRef="true" or something. That way , we are not 
>> screwing up anything and perf benefits can be studied separately.
>>
>>
>>> Use Google Collections in ConcurrentLRUCache
>>> --------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>                 Key: SOLR-1513
>>>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-1513
>>>             Project: Solr
>>>          Issue Type: Improvement
>>>          Components: search
>>>    Affects Versions: 1.4
>>>            Reporter: Jason Rutherglen
>>>            Priority: Minor
>>>             Fix For: 1.5
>>>
>>>         Attachments: google-collect-snapshot.jar, SOLR-1513.patch
>>>
>>>
>>> ConcurrentHashMap is used in ConcurrentLRUCache.  The Google Colletions 
>>> concurrent map implementation allows for soft values that are great for 
>>> caches that potentially exceed the allocated heap.  Though I suppose Solr 
>>> caches usually don't use too much RAM?
>>> http://code.google.com/p/google-collections/
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