Windows XP SP2
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=8677
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 8:36 PM, McLeod, John wrote:
> I was figuring that they went up to a few thousand, not a few million before
> there was trouble.
>
> I want to know what file system they were using that could cope with
I was figuring that they went up to a few thousand, not a few million before
there was trouble.
I want to know what file system they were using that could cope with 12 million
directory fanout in one directory. I know that the MS directory systems fall
over around 5K...
-Original Message-
Possibly, though in this case (12 million slot dirs)
that would imply that the client has 12 million tasks,
which is unlikely because then the client would completely bog down
because of the N^2 scheduling logic.
It's more likely due to a failure to clean out slot dirs,
and I suspect it's specific
An unbounded number of slot dirs. Would be caused by High Priority picking up a
task, running it for a few minutes, discovering that that particular task was
no longer in high priority, and picking up one that was now in high priority.
Repeat until all tasks have run for a couple of minutes in
