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Date:      Sun, 2 Oct 2005 15:22:59 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Divacky Roman <xdivac02@stud.fit.vutbr.cz>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: 6.0R todo list - hash sizes
Message-ID:  <20051002192259.GA37178@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20051002095828.GA51218@stud.fit.vutbr.cz>
References:  <20051001085358.GA62022@stud.fit.vutbr.cz> <20051001154628.GA64006@xor.obsecurity.org> <20051002095828.GA51218@stud.fit.vutbr.cz>

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On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 11:58:28AM +0200, Divacky Roman wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 11:46:28AM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 10:53:58AM +0200, Divacky Roman wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >=20
> > > scottl@ removed:
> > >     <td>Nullfs (and perhaps other filesystems) use an absurdly small
> > >      hash size that causes significant performance penalties.</td>
> > >=20
> > > this item from 6.0R todo list. How was this solved? I didnt see any c=
ommits
> > > to enlarge the hash values. Its still the same... why it was removed =
then?
> >=20
> > It was an incorrect suggestion on my part - it turns out this was not
> > the cause of the performance penalties, and Jeff fixed them long ago.
> >=20
> > Kris
> >=20
>=20
> anyway - what sense does it make to have hash of size 4 entries? (fdescfs=
 has
> this for example)

It doesn't cause any performance penalty I can measure.

Kris
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