Re: [Ltsp-discuss] can't ls in directory >90,000 files

2002-03-07 Thread Alessandro Selli
Il giorno Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Alexander Perry così ha scritto: |From: Alexander Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 08:43:59 -0800 |Subject: [Ltsp-discuss] can't ls in directory >90,000 files | |There is a "-U" option on 'ls'

[Ltsp-discuss] can't ls in directory >90,000 files

2002-03-07 Thread Alexander Perry
> On a more general note, I have a directory on my linux server which has > over 90,000 files. when I do a dir | wc -l I receive a number of >46,000 > (which I take to be >90,000 files since dir gives me 2 columns of file > names. > However, I can't ls. I have waited for up to 15 minutes. C

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] can't ls in directory >90,000 files

2002-03-07 Thread Sean Buck
Title: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] can't ls in directory >90,000 files I have a system running on RH 7.1 that is a monitoring station for 12 network video cameras.  Each of the cameras uploads a jpg image every 2-3 seconds to their own directory on the server.  On the server itself, I have

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] can't ls in directory >90,000 files

2002-03-06 Thread Leonid Mamtchenkov
Dear Rose, David , Once you wrote about "[Ltsp-discuss] can't ls in directory >90,000 files": RD> Hello all. RD> On a more general note, I have a directory on my linux server which has RD> over 90,000 files. when I do a dir | wc -l I receive a number of >46,000 R

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] can't ls in directory >90,000 files

2002-03-06 Thread Jason A. Pattie
What filesystem type are you using on your server? I was pretty sure ext2 had a file limit size of some number of thousand files in a given directory. Don't know what that limiting number is. You may want to look into a journalling filesystem on your server (i.e., reiserfs) if you don't hav

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] can't ls in directory >90,000 files

2002-03-06 Thread jam
David, 90,000 file is huge!! Still, ls should handle it. Keep in mind that ls is going to sort the entries. It could be that ls has a really lousy sort algorithm. I't try running "top" while you do the ls on that directory, and see if ls is chewing up massive amounts of cpu time. I think if

[Ltsp-discuss] can't ls in directory >90,000 files

2002-03-06 Thread Rose, David
Hello all. On a more general note, I have a directory on my linux server which has over 90,000 files. when I do a dir | wc -l I receive a number of >46,000 (which I take to be >90,000 files since dir gives me 2 columns of file names. However, I can't ls. I have waited for up to 15 minutes.