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Subject: Re: hash table size - is a power of 2 still an advantage these days?

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 18:50:31 09/24/03

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On September 24, 2003 at 19:28:58, Sune Fischer wrote:

>>If you swap even after leaving 128MB for the operating system, you need a better
>>operating system. :)
>
>Window is pretty large in memory usage, it is as if many programs stay in memory
>after having been closed, and they load incredibly fast if you start them up
>again.

That is true, but if you have something else that needs the memory (large hash
tables), those 'old' programs are cleaned out.

>But if I try and use 400 MB it will swap. It could just be windows cleaning up
>the swapfile or what I don't know, but when that ICC clocks starts ticking you
>don't need swapping!

Probably when it first starts, it has to clean all the other programs out of
memory and swap in the hash table when it starts to be used.  Once the process
completes it should not swap again, unless you load some other programs.



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