Hash Table Entries (-hash)
- Last Updated: February 5, 2025
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Hash Table Entries (-hash)
Use Hash Table Entries (-hash) to specify the number of hash table entries
to use for a buffer pool.
| Operating system and syntax | UNIX / Windows |
-hash
n
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Use with | Maximum value | Minimum value | Default | |
| Client Connection, Database Server | — | 13 | Approximately 1/4 or 1/3 of the
(-B + -B2) value |
|
- n
-
The number of hash table entries to use for the buffer pool.
CAUTION: Do not use this parameter unless directed to do so by Progress Software
Corporation Technical Support.
Note:
- You can specify a maximum
-hashvalue of 2,147,483,647 if there is sufficient memory on the system. - If not specified, the default
-hashvalue is calculated as approximately one-quarter or one-third of the total buffer pool, with a maximum default value of 265,000,007 when the total buffer pool is set to its maximum of 1 billion.