When overFlowToDisk gets activated in EHCACHE?

Question

I have some questions on \"overflowToDisk\" attribute of element?

1) I read at this URL that :

overflowToDisk sets whether element can overflow to disk when

Answer 1

Elements start to overflow to the disk when you have more than maxElementsInMemory of them in the memory store. The following example creates a cache that stores 1000 elements in memory, and, if you need to store more, up to 10000 on disk:

For the second question, have a look at the diskPersistent parameter. If it is set to true, Ehcache will keep your data stored on the disk when you stop the JVM. The following example demonstrates this: