How to avoid lost data in Terracotta BigMemory Go

Question

I'm testing BigMemory Go performances, and I notice lost of data.

This is the unit test:

public class BigMemoryGoPerformanceTest {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        BigMemoryGoPerformanceTest test = new BigMemoryGoPerformanceTest();
        test.testBigMemoryGoPerformance(args[0], Long.valueOf(args[1]), Long.valueOf(args[2]));
    }

    @DataProvider(name = "bigMemoryGoPerformance")
    public Object[][] bigMemoryGoPerformance() {
        return new Object[][] {
                   { "very small", 250000, 1 }
                  ,{ "small", 1000000, 2 }
                  ,{ "large", 10000000, 2 }
                  ,{ "very large", 50000000, 4 }
        };
    }

    @Test(dataProvider="bigMemoryGoPerformance")
    public void testBigMemoryGoPerformance(String testName, long maxRegisters, long externalMemory) throws IOException {

        Configuration managerConfiguration = new Configuration();
        managerConfiguration.updateCheck(true)
            .monitoring(Configuration.Monitoring.AUTODETECT)
            .name("config")
            .cache(new CacheConfiguration()
                .name("testperformance")
                .maxBytesLocalHeap(128, MemoryUnit.MEGABYTES)
                .maxBytesLocalOffHeap(externalMemory, MemoryUnit.GIGABYTES)
                .eternal(true)
            );

        CacheManager manager = CacheManager.create(managerConfiguration);
        Cache cache = manager.getCache("testperformance");

        try {
            System.out.println("First pass: insert " + maxRegisters + " nodes.");
            long mms = System.currentTimeMillis();
            for (long i = 0; i < maxRegisters; i++) {
                ItemForTesting item = new ItemForTesting();
                item.id = i;
                item.lastWay = i;
                item.latitude = new Double(i);
                item.longitude = new Double(i);
                cache.put( new Element(i, item) );
            }
            long timeInMMS = System.currentTimeMillis() - mms;
            System.out.println(testName + " --> Inserted " + maxRegisters + " registers in " + timeInMMS + " mms. Performance: " + ((long)(maxRegisters * 1000d / timeInMMS)) + " regs per seconds writing." );


            System.out.println("Second pass: reading " + maxRegisters + " nodes.");
            mms = System.currentTimeMillis();
            for (long i = 0; i < maxRegisters; i++) {
                Element element = cache.get(i);
                ItemForTesting item = (ItemForTesting)element.getObjectValue(); // <--- Null point exception !!!!!
            }
            timeInMMS = System.currentTimeMillis() - mms;
            System.out.println(testName + " --> Read " + maxRegisters + " registers in " + timeInMMS + " mms. Performance: " + ((long)(maxRegisters * 1000d / timeInMMS)) + " regs per seconds reading." );

            System.out.println("Third pass: updating " + maxRegisters + " nodes.");
            mms = System.currentTimeMillis();
            for (long i = 0; i < maxRegisters; i++) {
                Element element = cache.get(i);
                ItemForTesting item = (ItemForTesting)element.getObjectValue();
                item.latitude = item.latitude +1;
                cache.put( new Element(i, item) );
            }
            timeInMMS = System.currentTimeMillis() - mms;
            System.out.println(testName + " --> Updated " + maxRegisters + " registers in " + timeInMMS + " mms. Performance: " + ((long)(maxRegisters * 1000d / timeInMMS)) + " regs per seconds reading." );

            System.out.println("Fourth pass: deleting " + maxRegisters + " nodes.");
            mms = System.currentTimeMillis();
            for (long i = 0; i < maxRegisters; i++) {
                Element element = cache.get(i);
                ItemForTesting item = (ItemForTesting)element.getObjectValue();
                item.latitude = item.latitude +1;
                cache.remove( new Element(i, item) );
            }
            timeInMMS = System.currentTimeMillis() - mms;
            System.out.println(testName + " --> Removed " + maxRegisters + " registers in " + timeInMMS + " mms. Performance: " + ((long)(maxRegisters * 1000d / timeInMMS)) + " regs per seconds reading." );


        } finally {
            if (manager != null) manager.shutdown();
        }

    }

}

In "very large", using 50.000.000 iterations, when read data in second pass, return null. So data is lost!! Configuration is set to eternal = true. How to avoid lost data?

What is it wrong?

Thanks!

Answer 1

I suspect you need to pin the elements to avoid their expiration. Try config that looks something like this:

<cache name="myBigMemoryGoStore"
    maxBytesLocalHeap="1M"
    eternal="true"
    maxBytesLocalOffHeap="2G">
    <persistence strategy="none"/>
    <pinning store="inCache" />
    <sizeOfPolicy maxDepth="100000" maxDepthExceededBehavior="continue"/>

http://terracotta.org/documentation/4.0/bigmemorygo/configuration/data-life