Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Date | Wed, 7 Apr 1999 13:28:33 +0100 (BST) | Subject | Re: [patch] arca-vm-2.2.5 |
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Hi,
On Tue, 6 Apr 1999 14:58:17 -0700 (PDT), Simon Kirby <sim@netnation.com> said:
> I noticed what sct was talking about where when it hits swap, things tend > to all go into buckets close together -- I saw hundreds of things linked > to the same buckets at one point after I made my machine hit swap a bit.
Exactly because of the hash function. That's why we want to mix in the low order bits of the offset when calculating the hash.
--Stephen
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