I'm working on tweaking a script I wrote a few years ago. I have a little under 10,000 files in different directories that the script generates index lists of. I'm trying to take any unnecessary load off the server.
my first tests I've done show a 350% speed increase by caching the dir listings in a mysql database, over accessing the file system directly to get the lists. I'm still working on these tests, and finding the perfect way to do it, but what do you think?
