Maybe the registry entry DisableLastAccessUpdate improves that. Op 6 sep. 2011 17:57 schreef "Michael B. Smith" <mich...@smithcons.com> het volgende: > Consider this: NTFS is a type of database. And not a very efficient one either. And, for very small files, the files are actually stored within the file system, while with larger files, NTFS has pointers to the actual file data stored in the FS. > > Storage size has exploded in the last 10 years. However, performance has not matched the size expansion. > > If I'm going to simply OPEN or CREATE a small file - number of files has little impact. NTFS is just going to create a new entry in the database. > > If I need to find, list, or extend a file - well, it's going to take longer. > > If I need to enumerate files (that is, get a directory listing) the more files I've got, the longer it's going to take. > > It "can be shown" that having more than about 1K files in a directory will effect enumeration. It becomes really noticeable (IMHO) around 10K and heads rapidly downhill after that. > > Regards, > > Michael B. Smith > Consultant and Exchange MVP > http://TheEssentialExchange.com > > From: David Lum [mailto:david....@nwea.org] > Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 11:46 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: # of files on Windows server > > Recently we had a thread about how many files get to be too many for reasonable performance. Would this be just per folder, or possibly logical drive in general? Links/documents would work too. > David Lum > Systems Engineer // NWEATM > Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto: listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
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