[jira] [Resolved] (HBASE-5347) GC free memory management in Level-1 Block Cache

["Ian Varley (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Ian Varley resolved HBASE-5347.
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    Resolution: Later

Prakash, should this issue be closed if it's not being pursued any further? Sounds like there was broad general interest, but didn't end up being a useful direction? I'm changing this to "Later" for now, but feel free to outright close if you think it's no longer a useful direction.
                
> GC free memory management in Level-1 Block Cache
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>                 Key: HBASE-5347
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-5347
>             Project: HBase
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Prakash Khemani
>            Assignee: Prakash Khemani
>         Attachments: ASF.LICENSE.NOT.GRANTED--D1635.5.patch
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> On eviction of a block from the block-cache, instead of waiting for the garbage collecter to reuse its memory, reuse the block right away.
> This will require us to keep reference counts on the HFile blocks. Once we have the reference counts in place we can do our own simple blocks-out-of-slab allocation for the block-cache.
> This will help us with
> * reducing gc pressure, especially in the old generation
> * making it possible to have non-java-heap memory backing the HFile blocks

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