Hello,

is there still no help for me?
Is somebody able to explain me, why i get this
"java.util.ConcurrentModificationException"
on iterating and calling remove() on the LRUMap?

Please
René

2009/6/10 Renè Glanzer <rene.glan...@gmail.com>:
> Hello Ted,
>
> thanks for the fast response. I understand that simultaneously puts
> and gets do not cause the exception cause they are synchronized in my
> class.
> And my stated code-fragment is the part which wants to delete the
> entries from the underlying LRUMap. And my code is wrapped in the
> synchronized block. But i think the LRUMap herselfe also iterates the
> entries and this maybe happens at the same time when my iterator is
> checking and trying to delete elements. My class is not implementing
> the LRUMap but has one LRUMap as a variable.
> So your solution to override the removeLRU(Entry) methode would not
> help me....unfortunatelly :-(
>
> For now i really do not know how to solve the problem in an easy way
> without refractoring the entire code?
> Any other solutions?
> Thanks René
>
>
>
> 2009/6/9 Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com>:
>> I apologize for not reading your thread with great care, but I think that
>> your problem is pretty clear.
>>
>> The issue is not to do with gets and puts overlapping.  The issue is that a
>> put or remove happened during the life of your iterator.
>>
>> One way to avoid this is to synchronize the entire method that does the
>> deletion of old elements.  To speed that up, you might just synchronize the
>> scan for elements to delete and collect them into a list.  Then you can
>> delete them outside the loop.  Since your scan is probably pretty fast, this
>> may be sufficient.  With very high levels of updates and threading, it would
>> cause problems.
>>
>> Another option is to clone the table.  I believe that some implementations
>> of LRUMap in Lucene do copy-on-write semantics, but I don't think that
>> collections has these.  Without that, cloning will be as slow or slower than
>> your scan so the first option would be better.
>>
>> I am curious, however, why you didn't make use of the built-in capabilities
>> of the LRUMap to help you with this.  Notably, you should probably just
>> over-ride the removeLRU(Entry) method and set the scanUntilRemovable flag.
>> I think that this would take the place of your loop and would be much more
>> efficient.
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Renè Glanzer <rene.glan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> ... Additionally to the maximum number of the LRUMap i also implemented a
>>> thread which periodicly checks the age of the entries and deletes them
>>> when they are too old.
>>>
>>> For this i generated an Iterator which delivers me each entry and if
>>> the creation date is too old i call iterator.remove().
>>> But exactly on this line i get an
>>> "java.util.ConcurrentModificationException" although i wrapped all
>>> access to the map with synchronized blocks. So every put and get
>>> methods are synchronized.
>>>
>>>
>>
>

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