Re: virtualizing local users

From: Ralf Hildebrandt (no email)
Date: Tue Jul 02 2002 - 06:49:19 EDT


On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 05:14:36AM -0500, Phil Howard wrote:

> | Looking up something in one btree:
> | O(n) = ln(n) (well, sort of)
> |
> | Looking up something in x btrees of size (n/x):
> |
> | O(n) = x*ln(n/x)
> | which is bigger than ln(n)
>
> What is x? I think you are making the same mistake Victor did and are

x << n

(x is the number of maps)

> trying to sequentially search each map separately. Such a search can't
> even work since a map per-domain should have only the user part as the
> key.

All maps are searched. So if you key is in the last map, it has to
search each maps until a match is found.

> Just search ONE map, the one for the appropriate domain. Then we're

Postfix doesn't do that (yet)

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