On 2019-Feb-15, Tomas Vondra wrote:
> ISTM there's a couple of ways to deal with that:
>
> 1) Ignore the memory amounts entirely, and do just time-base eviction.
>
> 2) If we want some size thresholds (e.g. to disable eviction for
> backends with small caches etc.) use the number of entries instead. I
> don't think that's particularly worse that specifying size in MB.
Why is there a *need* for size-based eviction? Seems that time-based
should be sufficient. Is the proposed approach to avoid eviction at all
until the size threshold has been reached? I'm not sure I see the point
of that.
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