RE: [JBoss-dev] High load...

[Dain S. <da...@da...>]

> >>>I'm just curious what was the passivation cache for?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>Memory management. If your database contains 10 GB and you 
> only have 1GB
> >>of memory, you'll need to swap out some bean based on some 
> criteria (LRU
> >>by default) to make room.
> >>
> >>
> >>-danch
> >>
> >>
> > 
> > Exactly, so what was the passivation cache?  During 
> passivation we want to
> > dump data to make room for new objects.  I think I'm 
> lost... Why would we
> > want to cache objects that we are tiring to remove from memory?
> > 
> > -dain
> 
> It's a cache that passivates when it has over a certain 
> number of object 
> within it. It doesn't passivate what it's trying to cache, it 
> passivates 
> the overage.
> 

So if we remove the passivation cache, do we loose commit Option A? If not,
how do we keep bean data alive while passivated?

I still may not understand this.

-dain