Guys, To clarify the questions, I would like to reiterate over the mechanics of evictions and then suggest a renaming that should resolve such things in the future.
First of all, Lucas is right - eviction policy only makes sense when native persistence is disabled because what it does is actually freeing up memory when a user hits the memory limit. The only way to do this is to destroy inserted data because there is no other way to free memory. Now as per the eviction mechanism, it is both per-page and per-entry: first, we choose a page which fits most for eviction, however, we cannot simply erase the page because quite a lot of data structures are referring to that page. To deal with it, we read keys that the chosen page contains and then clear individual cache entries, which in turn will clear up all necessary links. If there are no concurrent updates, the page becomes empty and will be reused for other user data. This is exactly what is explained on the wiki page (at least in my reading of the page). Second, at this point, I would rename page management mechanism with enabled persistence from 'eviction' to 'page replacement' or 'page swapping', because it does not destroy any data, but rather replaces a chosen buffer in memory from one page to another. The content of neither pages does not change during page replacement. This mechanism is unlikely to be selected by a user because the effectiveness of page replacements heavily depends on internal data structures and may change from version to version, and may even be adaptive depending on the load pattern. Hope this resolves the confusion. --AG 2018-02-03 1:03 GMT+03:00 Denis Magda <dma...@apache.org>: > Dmitriy, > > I’m surprised to hear that Random-LRU works at the entry level when Ignite > persistence is off. Frankly, this section confuses a lot: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/IGNITE/ > Ignite+Durable+Memory+-+under+the+hood#IgniteDurableMemory- > underthehood-Entryeviction <https://cwiki.apache.org/ > confluence/display/IGNITE/Ignite+Durable+Memory+-+under+ > the+hood#IgniteDurableMemory-underthehood-Entryeviction> > > While it was assumed that the entry-based eviction works only for on-heap > caches: > https://apacheignite.readme.io/docs/evictions < > https://apacheignite.readme.io/docs/evictions> > > Alex G., please chime in and clarify the misunderstanding. > > — > Denis > > > On Feb 2, 2018, at 4:01 AM, Dmitry Pavlov <dpavlov....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi Val, > > > > I think it is quite accurate because eviction in case PDS enabled or not > > has quite different purposes. > > > > 1. Let us consider PDS enabled and page eviction occurs. First of all it > is > > page based eviction, but not entry-based. Actually data is not removed, > but > > only written to disk. We can address this page later by ID. > > PDS eviction is primarily the replacement of pages from memory to page on > > disk. This eviction policy should ensure the maximum performance of the > > solution in the future. There is no data removal from grid in this case. > > And Ignite does not allow users to configure the policy. If benchmarks > show > > that a change in policy results in increased performance, then we can > > switch policy. > > > > 2. Entry-based eviction (if there is no persistence is available) is > > slithly different. User will need to reload data into grid in case entry > is > > evicted but required in cache. In that case Ignite provides selection of > > policies. > > > > Sincerely, > > Dmirtiy Pavlov > > > > > > > > чт, 1 февр. 2018 г. в 22:24, Valentin Kulichenko < > > valentin.kuliche...@gmail.com>: > > > >> Guys, > >> > >> Thanks for responses. But I still fail to understand how it affects a > user. > >> > >> Are you saying that with persistence enabled Random-LRU is always used > >> regardless of what is specified in pageEvictionMode, while in in-memory > >> only scenario we can also utilize Random-2-LRU for eviction? Is this > >> accurate? Are there any other differences? > >> > >> -Val > >> > >> On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 5:01 AM, Dmitry Pavlov <dpavlov....@gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> Hi Vyacheslav, > >>> > >>> Yes, this is right, but for now PDS page based eviction uses > Random-LRU, > >>> not Random-2-LRU. Something may be changed in future Ignite releases, > but > >>> now Random-LRU is used. I am going to research if there is some room > for > >>> improvements in this aspect (e.g. IGNITE-7507 recenly found). > >>> > >>> If clean page is evicted, nothing really happends. If dirty page is > >> evicted > >>> from region during checkpointing process run, page is stored in file > >> before > >>> eviction > >>> > >>> Some info about this can be found in > >>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/IGNITE/ > >>> Ignite+Durable+Memory+-+under+the+hood#IgniteDurableMemory- > >>> underthehood-Pagebasedeviction > >>> > >>> Sincerely, > >>> Dmitriy Pavlov > >>> > >>> чт, 1 февр. 2018 г. в 9:53, Vyacheslav Daradur <daradu...@gmail.com>: > >>> > >>>> Hi Valentin, > >>>> > >>>> As far as I know, when persistence is enabled and Ignite can't > >>>> allocate new page-memory in the memory segment, then Ignite > >>>> automatically evict some data from RAM to PDS using Random-2-LRU > >>>> eviction algorithm. And there are no mechanisms to evict entries out > >>>> when PDS is enabled. > >>>> > >>>> I'll be glad if I am not right and someone will correct me because, as > >>>> Ignite user, I can't use PDS only as RAM disk replication for the use > >>>> case in my project. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 3:53 AM, Valentin Kulichenko > >>>> <valentin.kuliche...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>>>> Folks, > >>>>> > >>>>> On "Eviction Policies" documentation page [1] we have the following > >>>> callout: > >>>>> > >>>>>> Configured eviction policy has no effect if Ignite persistence is > >>>> enabled > >>>>>> Note that if Ignite Persistence is enabled, then the page-based > >>>> evictions > >>>>> have no effect because the oldest pages will be purged from memory > >>>>> automatically. > >>>>> > >>>>> This really confuses me. Why is there a difference in how data is > >>> evicted > >>>>> from memory depending on having disk enabled or not? And how does > >>>> eviction > >>>>> work with persistence enabled then? > >>>>> > >>>>> Does anyone can clarify? > >>>>> > >>>>> [1] https://apacheignite.readme.io/docs/evictions > >>>>> > >>>>> -Val > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> Best Regards, Vyacheslav D. > >>>> > >>> > >> > >
