Hello,
I have a problem regarding hidden cache files which are created when deploying) OSGI bundle in a loop.
My application:
- My application is one OSGI bundle (called root-bundle) which creates other bundles on the fly (called child-1, child-2, ...), packages them and deploys them on the same servicemix instance
- The child bundles are apache camel routes using Spring-DL (these bundles perform very simple treatments)
- To deploy/undeploy the child bundles, the root bundle uses the bundle API (bundle start/stop is performed programmatically)
My Scenario:
- I have a test which makes the root bundle create a lot of child bundles and deploy them.
My problem:
- I noticed that Servicemix creates a lot of hidden cache files in the directory apache-servicemix/data/cache/org.eclipse.osgi directory. These cache files are named
.state.x, .lazy.x and .bundledata.x where x is a number (these files are binary, so I cannot read them).
- Unfortunately, these cache files are quite big (around 1Mo each) and when I run the test over a long period, I run short on disk space (5GB filled in a few hours).
My configuration:
- I am using apache-servicemix-4.3.1-fuse-01-09, Spring 3.0.5, Camel 2.6.0 on Linux
Now my questions:
- Is it normal that ServiceMix creates those files?
- If yes, what are these files and whet information do they contain?
- Is there a way to prevent ServiceMix from creating them (like a configuration)?
Thanks a lot for any support
