Thanks to Dr. Thomas Blinn. Also, thanks to Samier Kesou for helpful ideas.
the directory search is sequential...if the file i'm seeking is at the end of the list, then it of course will take longer. so basically, it depends on the number of files &/or where the file falls in the sequence .
> hello mgrs:
>
> my o/s is 4.0F. i have a directory that contains upwards of 750,000
> files. the machine that these files are on, are nfs mounted to ~60
> other machines. so these 60 machines r/w to the this 1 machine. yes,
> i know that this isn't advisable, but...
>
> my question is, if there were only maybe 250,000 files versus 750,000,
> how much performance difference would i see? what i'm trying to ask
> is, does the kernel(ls/cp/rm), work harder finding a file with a
> significant increase in the # of totals files versus a small # total
> files in a directory?
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Received on Tue Aug 21 2001 - 15:41:09 NZST