Memory health monitoring and de-allocation
Memory health monitoring and de-allocation
The Gear6 Web Cache management interface displays a broad range of memory health information. Click to enlarge.
The best way to avoid failure-based web cache performance problems is to prevent or avoid failures before they happen. For this reason, Gear6 Web Cache employs a range of features that automatically and continuously scan both DRAM and flash memory for failures or failure indicators, removing affected memory from service as quickly as possible.
These algorithms take into account the different performance and reliability characteristics of DRAM and flash, and direct Gear6 Web Cache to use each in ways that maximize performance and reliability – for example, by not writing blocks of data across flash block boundaries when it can be avoided.
Information about memory health is also gathered in real time and provided to Gear6 Web Cache management interfaces for viewing and analysis.
