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Hibernate 2nd level cache ehcache timeToLive to short

i configured 2nd level hibernate cache with ehcache for some entities in my spring application.
The caches should live for 10 min, but the cached entities dont seem to live that long.
my entity looks like that:
#Cache(usage = CacheConcurrencyStrategy.READ_WRITE, region = "eh_apples")
public class Apple {
...
#Cache(usage = CacheConcurrencyStrategy.READ_WRITE, region = "eh_eaters")
#ManyToMany(fetch = FetchType.EAGER)
private Set<AppleEater> eaters = new HashSet<AppleEater>();
....
}
part of persistence.xml:
<property name="hibernate.cache.use_second_level_cache" value="true"/>
<property name="hibernate.cache.use_query_cache" value="true"/>
<property name="hibernate.cache.use_minimal_puts" value="true"/>
<property name="hibernate.cache.provider_class" value="org.hibernate.cache.EhCacheProvider"/>
<property name="hibernate.cache.provider_configuration_file_resource_path" value="META-INF/ehcache.xml"/>
<property name="hibernate.cache.region.factory_class" value="org.hibernate.cache.ehcache.EhCacheRegionFactory"></property>
ehcache.xml:
<ehcache xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="ehcache.xsd"
updateCheck="true"
monitoring="autodetect"
dynamicConfig="true"
maxBytesLocalHeap="500M">
<diskStore path="java.io.tmpdir/ehcache" />
<cache
name="eh_apples"
eternal="false"
overflowToDisk="false"
memoryStoreEvictionPolicy="LRU"
timeToLiveSeconds="600">
<persistence strategy="localTempSwap" />
</cache>
<cache
name="eh_eaters"
eternal="false"
overflowToDisk="false"
memoryStoreEvictionPolicy="LRU"
timeToLiveSeconds="600">
<persistence strategy="localTempSwap" />
</cache>
<cache
name="org.hibernate.cache.internal.StandardQueryCache"
eternal="false"
timeToLiveSeconds="600">
<persistence strategy="localTempSwap" />
</cache>
<cache
name="org.hibernate.cache.spi.UpdateTimestampsCache"
eternal="true">
<persistence strategy="localTempSwap" />
</cache>
</ehcache>
on localhost:
When retrieving 500 apples from DB for the first time, it takes around 1000ms. The log shows that they are put in memory.
Then for some of the following requests, it doesnt hit the DB anymore but read them from memory.
After less than 10 min, it starts to hit the DB again for the same entities, as shown here:
time:09:37:44.143 duration : 903
time:09:37:53.295 duration : 92
time:09:37:58.278 duration : 67
time:09:38:57.701 duration : 61
time:09:39:25.384 duration : 55
time:09:40:10.049 duration : 1185
time:09:44:21.507 duration : 1005
time:09:44:24.802 duration : 99
I wonder why the caches dont live up to 10 min. Maybe i missed some essential part while reading ehcache docs or there is some issue with my setup.
I appreciate any hint or help, pls dont hate <3
edit: run statistics
when i ran statistics i got following warning:
2017-03-04 10:45:54,563 [tomcat-http--90] WARN net.sf.ehcache.config.ConfigurationFactory - No configuration found. Configuring ehcache from ehcache-failsafe.xml found in the classpath: jar:file:/C:/repo/sts-bundle/pivotal-tc-server-developer-3.2.2.RELEASE/base-instance/wtpwebapps/Apples/WEB-INF/lib/ehcache-2.10.2.2.21.jar!/ehcache-failsafe.xml

My first guess would be that you reach maxEntriesLocalHeap or maxBytesLocalHeap which than causes eviction.
You can confirm that by looking at the statistics.

The problem was:
net.sf.ehcache.config.ConfigurationFactory - No configuration found.
Configuring ehcache from ehcache-failsafe.xml
The solution was, moving ehcache from META-INF to src/main/resources:
<property name="hibernate.cache.provider_configuration_file_resource_path"
value="classpath:ehcache.xml"/>

Configuration for enabling Ehcache DiskStore

I referred this for configuring disk store for Ehcache.
Below is my configuration. But this does not seem to work. I do to see any file in d:\cache. Am I missing something ?
<diskStore path="d:\\cache" />
<cache name="cache1"
maxEntriesLocalHeap="10"
maxEntriesLocalDisk="10000"
eternal="false"
diskSpoolBufferSizeMB="20"
timeToIdleSeconds="1" timeToLiveSeconds="2"
memoryStoreEvictionPolicy="FIFO"
transactionalMode="off">
<persistence strategy="localTempSwap" />
</cache>

EhCache : Why my diskStore path directory is not created?

I am working with ehcache. I am caching Spring #Service method :
#Service( value = "dataServicesManager" )
#Transactional
public class DataServicesManager implements IDataServicesManager{
#Autowired
private IDataDAO dataDAO;
#Override
#Cacheable( value = "alldatas" )
public List<Data> getAllDatas(Integer param) {
// my logic
return results;
}
// others services
}
Here is the Spring configuration snippet:
<cache:annotation-driven/>
<bean id="cacheManager" class="org.springframework.cache.ehcache.EhCacheCacheManager">
<property name="cacheManager" ref="ehcache"/>
</bean>
<bean id="ehcache" class="org.springframework.cache.ehcache.EhCacheManagerFactoryBean">
<property name="configLocation" value="WEB-INF/ehcache.xml"/>
<property name="shared" value="true"/>
</bean>
Here is my ehcache configuration.
<ehcache xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="ehcache.xsd" updateCheck="true" monitoring="autodetect" dynamicConfig="true">
<diskStore path="C:/TEMP/ehcache"/>
<defaultCache eternal="false"
timeToIdleSeconds="300"
timeToLiveSeconds="1200"
overflowToDisk="true"
diskPersistent="false"
diskExpiryThreadIntervalSeconds="120" />
<cache name="alldatas" maxEntriesLocalHeap="10000" eternal="false"
timeToIdleSeconds="21600" timeToLiveSeconds="21600" memoryStoreEvictionPolicy="LRU">
</cache>
</ehcache>
When i call the service method getAllDatas from a Spring #Controller the method is cached and the second time call retrieve the result stores in cache.
What i don't understand is that i cannot find the <diskStore path="C:/TEMP/ehcache"/> specify in the ehcache.xml. So i have two questions :
Question 1: Why "C:/TEMP/ehcache" directory is not created ?
Question 2: Where is cached my service results ?

Your Ehcache configuration is to blame.
The defaultCache element will only be used when you create a cache programatically without specifying a configuration.
But you define explicitly your alldatas cache, without any disk options.
So your configuration needs to become:
<cache name="alldatas" maxEntriesLocalHeap="10000" eternal="false"
timeToIdleSeconds="21600" timeToLiveSeconds="21600" memoryStoreEvictionPolicy="LRU"
overflowToDisk="true"
diskPersistent="false"
diskExpiryThreadIntervalSeconds="120">
</cache>
And then this cache will use the disk store.
If you do not plan on having other caches in your application, you can also remove the defaultCache element for clarity.

Probably because your retrieved data does not overflow to disk. Caching is done in memory until some threshold is overpassed. Try to reduce the maxEntriesLocalHeap to something that you know is small enough for your data to overflow and see if the file is created.

UpdateTimestampsCache not appearing in Terracotta Dev Console

I have configured ehcache for hibernate 2nd level cache to use a Terracotta server. Everything is working fine, except the UpdateTimestampsCache for the query cache is just not showing up in the Dev Console. We are using Hibernate 3.6.10 and ehcache 2.6.0.
I am seeing all entity, collection, query and the StandardQueryCache, but not org.hibernate.cache.UpdateTimestampsCache. I know the timestamp cache exists and is being used because I can see the stats on it using the the metrics lib instrumented in.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
Here's my ehcache.xml config
<ehcache xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://ehcache.org/ehcache.xsd"
updateCheck="false"
name="Hibernate-CacheManager"
monitoring="autodetect"
dynamicConfig="true">
<terracottaConfig url="localhost:9510" />
<defaultCache
eternal="false"
overflowToDisk="false"
maxElementsInMemory="50000"
timeToIdleSeconds="7200"
timeToLiveSeconds="0">
<cacheDecoratorFactory
class="com.yammer.metrics.ehcache.InstrumentedEhcacheFactory" />
<terracotta/>
</defaultCache>
<cache
name="org.hibernate.cache.UpdateTimestampsCache"
eternal="false"
overflowToDisk="false"
maxElementsInMemory="500"
timeToIdleSeconds="7200"
timeToLiveSeconds="0">
<cacheDecoratorFactory
class="com.yammer.metrics.ehcache.InstrumentedEhcacheFactory" />
<terracotta/>
</cache>
<cache
name="org.hibernate.cache.StandardQueryCache"
eternal="false"
overflowToDisk="false"
maxElementsInMemory="50000"
timeToIdleSeconds="7200"
timeToLiveSeconds="0">
<cacheDecoratorFactory
class="com.yammer.metrics.ehcache.InstrumentedEhcacheFactory" />
<terracotta/>
</cache>
</ehcache>

Recopying answer from: http://forums.terracotta.org/forums/posts/list/0/7554.page#36815
Hibernate does not maintain statistics for the UpdateTimestampsCache cache up to Hibernate 4.0.0. This explains why the cache does not show up in the terracotta dev console.
This is filed as bug https://hibernate.onjira.com/browse/HHH-5326

ehcache RMI config to spring

I'm trying to move the creation of Cache that uses RMI from ehcache.xml file to a Spring xml.
It wasn't a problem to just create a EhCacheFactoryBean but how does RMICacheReplicatorFactory definition suppose to/can be implemented?
Here is how it looks in ehcache.xml file.
Many thanks,
Idan
<cache name="MyCache1"
maxElementsInMemory="1000"
eternal="false"
overflowToDisk="true"
diskSpoolBufferSizeMB="20"
timeToLiveSeconds="3000"
timeToIdleSeconds="3000"
memoryStoreEvictionPolicy="LFU">
<!-- RMI replication listener -->
<cacheEventListenerFactory
class="net.sf.ehcache.distribution.RMICacheReplicatorFactory"
properties="replicateAsynchronously=true,
replicatePuts=true,
replicatePutsViaCopy=true,
replicateUpdates=true,
replicateUpdatesViaCopy=true,
replicateRemovals=true" />
<!-- RMI Cache bootstrap -->
<bootstrapCacheLoaderFactory
class="net.sf.ehcache.distribution.RMIBootstrapCacheLoaderFactory"
properties="bootstrapAsynchronously=true, maximumChunkSizeBytes=5000000"
propertySeparator="," />
</cache>

When using Spring 3 there is a cacheEventListeners property of type Set<CacheEventListener> for the EhCacheFactoryBean (see https://jira.springsource.org/browse/SPR-6234). When using 2.5 you could extend EhCacheFactoryBean yourself like shown here.