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Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 07:49:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: Thomas David Rivers <ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com>
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To: ponds!lakes.water.net!rivers, ponds!sdf.com!tom
Subject: Re: Why news expiration is sooo slowww with 2.2.x.
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> >   What options are you using on the "ls"?  "-l" causes lots of getpwuid()
> > calls.  "-f" will avoid sorting.  How many files were actually in that
> > directory?  If the directory is screwed, and you have a million files in
> > it, 20-30 minutes is probably normal, and chances are the expiry will
> > never remove them either.
> 
>   No -l, just 'ls' (to avoid the stat()) - the directory isn't messed
> up - an fsck indicates everything is just fine.  It's just that there
> are a lot of files.
> 
>   A 
> 	/bin/ls -1 | wc -l
> 
> reveals:
> 

 Oops - I left that out (it ran for about 15 minutes before giving
me the answer).  In my spool/control directory:

[ponds.water.net]$ /bin/ls -1 | wc -l
   41734


So - I have about that many files...

	- Dave Rivers -