Re: [gentoo-user] what made portage go fast again?

[Hans-Werner Hilse]

Hi,

On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 14:21:23 +0100
Fernando Meira <fmeira@×××××.com> wrote:

> > You been running that du -s command to huh? It does work. I really
> > need it on my old 200MHz machine. Would you happen to know what that
> > command does? I read the man page but it didn't help much. I'm
> > learning though.
>
> The idea is to cache all files into memory so that a re-run through those
> files goes faster. The command du takes all files of the dir you provide to
> calculate the amount of space used. Of course, you could use any other
> command that runs through the files... :)

du doesn't run through the files, just the directories. But this helps
enough with filesystems that don't use sorted/weighted trees for the
directory structure.

-hwh
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