Methods for a treatment of cached objects are described. In one embodiment, management of a region of a cache is configured with an eviction policy plug-in. The eviction policy plug-in includes an eviction timing component and a sorting component, with the eviction timing component including code to...http://www.google.fr/patents/US7512737?utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBrevet US7512737 - Size based eviction implementation