On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 03:51:24PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Colin Watson wrote: > > Investigation shows that the hash used to store available packages > > (lib/database.c) has 128 bins, and was last tuned with a sample set of > > 141 packages in total. Since there are now over 9000 binary packages in > > unstable, this could do with being tuned again. > > Funny, Jason Gunthorpe said he made the exact same benchmark a while > ago and claimed it did not improve things at all. Looks like we do > have to look into the hashing.
I wonder if Colin took into account that the data was cached on the second run? An average of 3-5 runs for each would give a better result. -- .------==-=======--------=====------------=-=-----. / Ben Collins -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========---====----------==-===-------=--=---' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
