Hello!
On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 5:31 AM, Robert Paprocki wrote:
> Out of sheer curiosity at this point, what is the mechanism that handles
> this expiration? I don't see anything in the nginx debug log exactly when
> the expire time occurs, only a 'slab free' when the next get -after- the
> expire time occurs- is this some kind of lazy expiration that doesn't rely
> on timers then, but an internal timestamp?
>
Yes, it's lazy expiration, as found in other key-value cache servers
like memcached. Otherwise it's just too expensive to expire keys.
Regards,
-agentzh