Commit f2f4550a authored by Fabian Reinartz's avatar Fabian Reinartz

Remove comment about hash collisions

parent 6244bb14
......@@ -105,16 +105,3 @@ storage directory:
1. Stop Prometheus.
1. `rm -r <storage path>/*`
1. Start Prometheus.
## Hash collisions
Prometheus currently uses 64-bit fingerprints to identify time
series. On a large server with several million time series, the chance
of a hash collision is about one to one million (assuming the FNV-1a
hash function works well). While that might appear safe enough, the
problem is that a hash collision will effectively lead to undetected
data corruption. Also, with more powerful hardware and future
improvements of the Prometheus code, much higher numbers of time
series might be handled by a single server, increasing the chance of a
collision. See [Prometheus issue #509](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/issues/509)
for efforts to deal with the problem.
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