[Gross] false positives
Eino Tuominen
eino at utu.fi
Wed Dec 17 14:22:51 EET 2008
Jesse Thompson wrote:
> You probably need to raise filter_bits setting; especially since you are
> using such a large rotate_interval.
>
> Or, if you use the block_threshold functionality, most messages will be
> blocked and not added to the filters, which reduces the chance of false
> positives.
Indeed, that's seems to be the best way.
Just for the record, we are now talking false matches, or collisions in
the bloom filter, not false positives.
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Eino Tuominen
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