On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 10:53:52 -0800, Steven Grimm wrote: > If the client passes in the same hash that it uses for server > selection, won't that lead to nonuniform distribution of keys to hash > buckets?
True. But you may simply rotate the precomputed hash value, say, 16 bits, instead of computing it anew. But the whole idea was a random thought. And I didn't ment to break the existing clients, I tried to explain that. Anyways, nevermind. But curious, what's the bottleneck then is? -- Tomash Brechko
