Re: hash buckets

samir wrote: > > Hi all, > please what does it exactly means the "hash buckets" in the bottom of some > output of the utility onstat (onstat -k for exemple ) > > 74 active, 100000 total, ??? 52768 hash buckets ??? Because of the potentially large number of locks in a system and the need to quickly determine if a row is being locked the locks are managed through a hash table. To determine if a row is locked the engine hashes the rowid of the row and checks the hash table bucket into which it hashes to see if there