A colleague of mine was told by a software supplier that:
"Some forms of Unix suffer performance degradation if the number of
directory entries approaches 2000."
He is looking at a software solution that creates a lot of small files
(probably > 5000) in one directory. He is new to Unix and wants to check
the above statement.
Has anyone heard similar? Does DEC Unix (or specifically ADVFS) suffer?
Do any of the other unixes suffer from this? What about UFS, does it
suffer? Are there kernel parameters that can help in such a situation?
Any gotchas to watch for?
Thanks,
Mark.Schubert_at_faulding.com.au
Received on Tue Apr 14 1998 - 04:34:58 NZST