On Tue, 6 Apr 1999 14:58:17 -0700 (PDT), Simon Kirby <sim@netnation.com>
said:
> I noticed what sct was talking about where when it hits swap, things tend
> to all go into buckets close together -- I saw hundreds of things linked
> to the same buckets at one point after I made my machine hit swap a bit.
Exactly because of the hash function. That's why we want to mix in the
low order bits of the offset when calculating the hash.
--Stephen
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