markrmiller commented on a change in pull request #230: URL: https://github.com/apache/solr/pull/230#discussion_r706265995
########## File path: solr/solr-ref-guide/src/caches-warming.adoc ########## @@ -79,6 +79,9 @@ Reasonable values, depending on the query volume and patterns, may lie somewhere The `maxRamMB` attribute limits the maximum amount of memory a cache may consume. When both `size` and `maxRamMB` limits are specified the `maxRamMB` limit will take precedence and the `size` limit will be ignored. +The `async` attribute determines whether the cache stores direct results (`async=false`, the default) or whether it will store indirect references to the computation (`async=true`). Enabling `async` will use more slightly more memory per cache entry, but may result in reduced CPU cycles generating results or doing garbage collection. The most noticable improvements will be seen when there are many queries racing to compute the same results before they are inserted into the cache. In some use cases, increasing autowarming may be a better alternative to enabling an async cache. Additionally, an async cache will not prevent a data race for time-limited queries, as those may return differing sets of partial results. Review comment: Nothing urgent here, but personally I'd like it to also be a little more clear that this issue can help solve the problem in the description of the JIRA. It's somewhat referenced with the mention of autowarming, but with no history of that issue, I'd have no idea that using this would help prevent that problem or why autowarming was somehow another approach to the async option. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@solr.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@solr.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@solr.apache.org