Hi Baron, Baron Schwartz wrote:
I'd be interested to know what filesystem you're using and how big the directories are. When you say big, do you mean number of entries in the directory, or space used?
There were about 70k files in /tmp (caused by a mistake). the web application on this server had many lookups to tmp and those were slowed down.
Filesystem is ext3 with dir_index turned-on, noatime on an hardware raid1. -soenke -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]