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TIBCO iProcess® Engine 11.10.0

# FIL_PROCDEF_CACHE_SIZE

Procedure Configuration

## Summary

This attribute defines the maximum number of procedure definitions that can be cached in memory by the `BG` and `WIS` processes.

## Applies To

This attribute can be set for the `WIS`, `BG`, `SPO` or ALL processes.

## Permissible Values

The attribute value must be a numeric value greater than or equal to 1.

## Default Value

The attribute is assigned the following default value when iProcess Engine is installed.

Machine ID | Process | Instance | Value
0 | ALL | 0 | 64

## Notes

The in-memory procedure definition cache is used by the `BG`, `WIS` and `SPO` processes for rapid access to recently-used procedure definitions. When a `BG`, `WIS` or `SPO` process first accesses a procedure definition, the definition is fetched from the database and written to the cache. Subsequent accesses will use the definition from the cache rather than from the database, and so will be faster.

The `BG` process uses the procedure definition cache for all procedures that it processes. The `WIS` and `SPO` processes use it to filter queues that contain `CDQP` definitions.

This attribute defines the maximum number of procedure definitions that can be cached by the specified process. Increasing this value:

| • | increases the number of procedure definitions that can be rapidly accessed from the cache, but also increases the memory footprint of the process.

| • | can speed up work item filtering on large queues by the `WIS` or `SPO` processes.

Once the `FIL_PROCDEF_CACHE_SIZE` limit is reached for a process, if a new procedure definition needs to be added to the cache, the oldest procedure definition is removed. When this happens, the following message (with ID `1631`) is written to the `sw_warn` file:

`proc_name` `has been bumped from the FIL procedure definition cache`

where `proc_name` is the name of the procedure definition that has been deleted from the cache. If this occurs you may want to increase the `FIL_PROCDEF_CACHE_SIZE` value.

Note:

The `SPO` process caches every procedure version of every procedure. This means that if your iProcess Engine has many procedures each of which has many procedure versions, the `FIL_PROCDEF_CACHE_SIZE` limit may easily be reached, causing a sw_warn file to be generated. To avoid this, you should reset the value of the `FIL_PROCDEF_CACHE _SIZE` to be (number of procedures) * (number of procedure versions).

The `sw_warn` file that is generated contains messages like the example :

    2007/04/05 08:42:39(SPO:1:2180:0:swadmin:\filpdcc.c::1253): 1631-WARNING: <'$EMAIL' has been bumped from the FIL procedure definition cache> <> <> <>

The number and frequency of these messages indicates whether you need to amend the `FIL_PROCDEF_CACHE_SIZE` limit. For example, a couple of messages generated over a few minutes means there is no need to alter the `FIL_PROCDEF_CACHE_SIZE` value. However, lots of messages generated in a short space of time means the `FIL_PROCDEF_CACHE_SIZE` has been greatly exceeded.

You should be aware that if you do increase the `FIL_PROCDEF_CACHE_SIZE` value, the process uses more memory so you may reach the Operating System memory limit sooner.

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