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

Posted in 1998

Art S. Kagel — Tue, 10 Feb 1998 12:48:35 -0500 (EST) — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

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