Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: dbz caveat
Message-ID: <1989Oct16.161832.16259@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1139@svx.SV.DG.COM> <1989Sep26.223014.13868@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <9668@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> <6512@ficc.uu.net> <9680@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> <1989Oct14.062717.15420@twwells.com> <675@wet.UUCP> <1989Oct16.043012.2938@twwells.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 89 16:18:32 GMT

In article <1989Oct16.043012.2938@twwells.com> bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) writes:
>: ... INDEX_SIZE is at the default 99991 and our
>: history file has 87140 records!  Any suggestions how big I
>: should make it?
>
>... Figure how long (in years) you don't want to
>be bothered with readjusting the size, take its log base two...

In case anyone is interested, one of the reasons why an "official" dbz for
C News is being delayed is that I'm experimenting with a variant which
grows the table automatically when it starts to get full.
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A bit of tolerance is worth a  |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
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