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On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 20:50:26 -0500 |
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Bruce Therrien <bruce.therrien@×××××.org> wrote: |
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> Is there a limit to the files contained in a directory? |
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No. Though the file system type can have an affect on performance if |
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there are a lot of files/directories. For example, reiserfs is much |
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faster at handling a lot of files than ext[23]. What file system are |
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you using? |
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> we have over 19,000 in our store graphics directory |
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> and sometimes cannot acces it because the ftp |
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> software says it's not a directory. |
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> It's on an IBM server running gentoo. |
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I would think it is the ftp software and not the file system or |
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server. 19,000 is not a huge number. I have an AMD64 3200+ with 2 GB |
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of dual channel DDR 400 and a SATA II drive with reiserfs v3. The |
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system is "speedy" but certainly nothing high end. Here is a test I |
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just did: |
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# Touch 19,000 files |
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jim@keelie $ mkdir /tmp/bigdir |
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jim@keelie $ cd /tmp/bigdir |
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jim@keelie $ time for i in $(seq 0 19000); do touch $i; done |
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real 0m23.318s |
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user 0m6.370s |
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sys 0m16.364s |
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# list 19,000 files |
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jim@keelie $ time ls -l |
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real 0m1.481s |
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user 0m0.235s |
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sys 0m0.163s |
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# Remove 19,000 files |
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jim@keelie $ time find . -exec rm {} \; |
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real 0m12.555s |
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user 0m3.834s |
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sys 0m8.545s |
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Jim |
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