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Why is cache size sometimes even higher than specified maxEntries of the eviction configuration element?

April 26, 2017cache configuration element eviction size

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Why is cache size sometimes even higher than specified maxEntries of the eviction configuration element?

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Although one can specify maxEntries to be a value that is not a power of two, the underlying algorithm will size it to the value V closest to power of two that is larger than maxEntries specified. Eviction algorithms guarantee that the size of cache container will never be greater than V.