4.6. Troubleshooting Expiration

If expiration does not appear to be working, it may be due to an entry being marked for expiration but not being removed.

Multiple-cache operations such as put() are passed a life span value as a parameter. This value defines the interval after which the entry must expire. In cases where eviction is not configured and the life span interval expires, it can appear as if Red Hat JBoss Data Grid has not removed the entry. For example, when viewing JMX statistics, such as the number of entries, you may see an out of date count, or the persistent store associated with JBoss Data Grid may still contain this entry. Behind the scenes, JBoss Data Grid has marked it as an expired entry, but has not removed it. Removal of such entries happens as follows:

Any attempt to use get() or containsKey() for the expired entry causes JBoss Data Grid to return a null value. The expired entry is later removed by the expiration thread.