[Zope-Coders] Status of QueueCatalog?

[Shane Hathaway]

Andreas Jung wrote:
> 
> 
> --On Dienstag, 26. November 2002 13:29 -0500 Shane Hathaway 
> <shane@zope.com> wrote:
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>> Andreas Jung wrote:
>>
>>> Can someone give a short note on the status of QueueCatalog? Is it
>>> ready for production?
>>
>>
>> Well, it's *in* production. :-)  One lesson we learned, though, is that
>> you have to think about the number of buckets you need.  The default is
>> 1009, and they all have to be loaded into memory to flush or examine the
>> queue.  This was a big burden until we reduced it to 7 buckets.  No
>> problems since.
>>
> 
> Why 1009 and not 42? ;-)

I don't know.  I'd guess it was chosen because it's a prime number. :-) 
  I think you want more than 1 and less than 1,000,000.

Shane