hi bill,

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----- Original Message -----
> From: "William Allen Simpson" <william.allen.simp...@gmail.com>
> To: "NFS Ganesha Developers" <nfs-ganesha-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2017 4:01:01 AM
> Subject: [Nfs-ganesha-devel] cache and hash and partitions should be primes
> 
> Was looking through ntirpc cache/hash sizes, and discovered that:
> svc_auth_des.c has 64 (not prime);
not used?

> authgss_hash.c has 255 (not prime).

good catch

> 
> Configurable number of partitions aren't checked for primality.
> 
> So began checking Ganesha as well.
> 
> src/support/export_mgr.c has a nice size of 769, appropriate for
> 10,000'ish exports by id with a hit rate of 0.130208.
> 
> src/support/ds.c has a fair size of 163, appropriate for 256'ish
> active servers with a hit rate of 0.520833.
> 
> (I chose those two a couple of years ago.)
> 
> The number 1009 is used several places.  Prime, but too large?
> src/support/netgroup_cache.c
> src/support/uid2grp_cache.c
> src/idmapper/idmapper_cache.c
> 
> DRC_TCP_CACHESZ 127 and DRC_UDP_CACHESZ 599, while prime, seem
> completely oddball (and reversed).  And allow configuration to 255
> and 2047 (not prime) respectively.

careful;  first is small on the theory it will retire fast, and note it is per 
connection

the UDP DRC is global, so larger

Matt

> 
> Are there others that I've missed?
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