Re: Is it better to set the freelist to a prime number ?

When a process requests a free list,
it uses some sort of 'hashing' function
to select which free list, based on the
process id. Using a prime number
with such mechanisms usually reduces
the number of collisions that occur if
the input is randomly distributed.

I think it may have been Anjo Kolk who
first came out with this suggestion.

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yewpc wrote in message <3d2a7f6e$1_at_usenetgateway.com>...


>Hi everyone,

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>I was told before that freelist should be set to less than max

>concurrent users and better use a prime number.

>

>Does anyone know why it is better to use a prime number ?

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>Thank you

>

>Regards, ypc

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