fletcher@cs.utexas.edu (Fletcher Mattox) (11/18/90)
Is there any advantage to increasing DEFSIZE (or any other #defines) in the cnews' dbz package to accomodate huge history files? Huge is about 260000 keys. Thanks Fletcher
henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (11/18/90)
In article <14776@cs.utexas.edu> fletcher@cs.utexas.edu (Fletcher Mattox) writes: >Is there any advantage to increasing DEFSIZE (or any other #defines) >in the cnews' dbz package to accomodate huge history files? Rarely. If the growth is gradual, it will adapt itself automatically. Every time expire is run, the hash table gets re-sized based on recent history sizes. DEFSIZE only determines where it starts when built from scratch. Also, the C News dbz, unlike the old one, handles overflow correctly and fairly efficiently, so there is no disaster in temporarily overshooting the table size. -- "I don't *want* to be normal!" | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology "Not to worry." | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry