On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 09:11:33AM +0200, Peter van Dijk wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 11:37:03AM +0200, Xavier Pegenaute wrote:
> > Hi all..
> >
> > i can try any prime number for hashing ..? ( is limited?)
>
> You can try any number, but anything over 1/1000th of your queuesize
> is overkill.
I thought it would be better to take a number about the square root of the
top queue size, which minimizes search length on a classical file system.
For 23000 your on the order of 151, which happens to look prime.
Jost
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