On Apr 30, 2010, at 14:32 , Richard Brittain wrote:
This solves my immediate need, and I'll probably use your mount point database too, but begs the question of why perl's File::Find module works fine, while 'find' breaks. Underneath they are presumably making very similar system calls.
Similar system calls is only part of it. The exact pattern of lookups counts for a lot with respect to kernel resource usage; you might poke at syslog when you get those failures to see if the kernel is whining about something. File::Find has gone through a lot of development aimed at reducing its impact on the system, whereas in my experience the GNU folks tend to prefer the throw-more-resources-at-it method.
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