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Subject: Re: Worsening performance with bigger hash table

Author: Andrey Popov

Date: 23:45:41 12/09/05

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On December 10, 2005 at 02:12:39, TEERAPONG TOVIRAT wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I asked my friend to run a few tests for me. Surprisingly, he told me that when
>he set bigger hash table size ,the performance decreased. How could this happen?
>Can it be his hardware problem? For mines, everything is alright.
>Any comment is appreciated.
>
>Regards,
>Teerapong

 If the hash size is higher than the remanent (free) RAM memory in your
computer, the hard disk will be automatically used instead the memory.
Thousands of disk read/write operations per second will slow down (==weaken) the
engine very much.



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