Once upon a time, fred smith <[email protected]> said: > I know that on (much) older systems, large directories were inherently > slow to traverse. I guess I shouldn't assume that is still the case.
Old systems also much less RAM. I made a directory with a similar number of files, and the space on disk for the directory is 8MB. When system RAM is measure in MB, you're using a large portion of it just to sort a list that size (possibly swapping or tossing cached buffers). When you have GB of RAM, what's 8MB? -- Chris Adams <[email protected]> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
