Re: Re[2]: KAIO vps, and bufwaits

Any special reason your suggest prime? Art S. Kagel wrote in message <6bq77p$k3r$1@news.xmission.com>... > >On Tue, 10 Feb 1998 davin_harvey@dsti.co.uk wrote: > >> Art >> >> Just a small question. Is there any reason for keeping the number of >> LRU queues to a power of two? Everybody seems to use 8,16,32, etc. >> Just habit, or what? > >Naw, just dumb programmer habits. I even suggested in the original >posting that if someone wanted to try numbers other than 32 and 128 to >avoid the bug I mentioned that a prime number would probably be safe. > >Art S. Kagel, kagel@bloomberg.com >