[sr-dev] git:master:ac531266: modules: readme files regenerated - htable ... [skip ci]

Module: kamailio Branch: master Commit: ac531266077490a85f1ab98853fd64df6feeea43 URL: https://github.com/kamailio/kamailio/commit/ac531266077490a85f1ab98853fd64d… Author: Kamailio Dev <kamailio.dev(a)kamailio.org> Committer: Kamailio Dev <kamailio.dev(a)kamailio.org> Date: 2020-05-01T17:31:09+02:00 modules: readme files regenerated - htable ... [skip ci] --- Modified: src/modules/htable/README --- Diff: https://github.com/kamailio/kamailio/commit/ac531266077490a85f1ab98853fd64d… Patch: https://github.com/kamailio/kamailio/commit/ac531266077490a85f1ab98853fd64d… --- diff --git a/src/modules/htable/README b/src/modules/htable/README index 4aa4c258a9..ca193e2213 100644 --- a/src/modules/htable/README +++ b/src/modules/htable/README @@ -444,11 +444,17 @@ $ kamcmd htable.dump htable configuration file. * htname - string specifying the name of the hash table. This string is used by $sht(...) to refer to the hash table. - * size - number specifying the size of hash table. Larger value means - less collisions. The number of entries (aka slots or buckets) in - the table is 2^size. The possible range for this value is from 2 to - 31, smaller or larger values will be increased to 3 (8 slots) or - decreased to 14 (16384 slots). + * size - number to control how many slots (buckets) to create for the + hash table. Larger value means more slots with higher probability + for less collisions. The actual number slots (or buckets) created + for the table is 2^size. The possible range for this value is from + 2 to 31, smaller or larger values will be increased to 3 (8 slots) + or decreased to 14 (16384 slots). Note that each slot can store + more than one item, when there are collisions of hash ids computed + for keys. The items in the same slot are stored in a linked list. + In other words, the size is not setting a limit of how many items + can be stored in a hash table, as long as there is enough free + shared memory, new items can be added. * autoexpire -time in seconds to delete an item from a hash table if no update was done to it. If is missing or set to 0, the items won't expire.