[jira] [Commented] (ZOOKEEPER-442) need a way to remove watches that are no longer of interest

["Gunnar Wagenknecht (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Gunnar Wagenknecht commented on ZOOKEEPER-442:
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This is getting critical in our environment. From a heap dump we recognized that the {{HashMap}} with all the values was very large and consumed ~70% of the heap (~3 million entries, collected over just a few days, ~8 million capacity). 

Our usage patter might be wrong, though. I'm setting an exists watch in order to wait for a node to be deleted within a certain timeout. The watch contains a CountDownLatch which allows me to sleep until the watch triggers or the timeout triggers. in the latter case I really need to remove the watch.

A workaround would be to not set a watch at all and just sleep for a while and check in a loop. However, that would increase the read traffic to ZooKeeper dramatically.

Any ideas?

> need a way to remove watches that are no longer of interest
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>
>                 Key: ZOOKEEPER-442
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-442
>             Project: ZooKeeper
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Benjamin Reed
>
> currently the only way a watch cleared is to trigger it. we need a way to enumerate the outstanding watch objects, find watch events the objects are watching for, and remove interests in an event.

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