From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 10 18:06:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA09238 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 10 May 1998 18:06:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.iconz.co.nz (mail.iconz.co.nz [202.14.100.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA09192 for ; Sun, 10 May 1998 18:06:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from news.iconz.co.nz (status.gen.nz [202.14.100.1]) by mail.iconz.co.nz (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA132550894848772; Mon, 11 May 1998 13:06:12 +1200 (NZST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news.iconz.co.nz (8.8.5/8.8.5) with UUCP id NAA01755; Mon, 11 May 1998 13:06:12 +1200 Received: from tui.pinnacle.co.nz (tui.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.3]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA11567; Mon, 11 May 1998 12:47:48 +1200 (NZST) Received: from localhost (jonc@localhost) by tui.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA18418; Mon, 11 May 1998 12:47:47 +1200 (NZST) X-Authentication-Warning: tui.pinnacle.co.nz: jonc owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 12:47:47 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen To: George Vagner cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Softupdates In-Reply-To: <199805090841.DAA01247@epcot.spdc.ti.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 9 May 1998, George Vagner wrote: > while we are on filesystems.... > > why is is that win95 can search a 5 gig drive in ~10 seconds and it takes > FreeBSD 10 minutes to do a find? > > how can I speed FreeBSD up on this file find thing? win95 uses a cache file. FreeBSD can also do this by using locate(1). -- Jonathan Chen -------------------------------------------------------------------- The Internet: an empirical test of the idea that a million monkeys banging on a million keyboards can produce Shakespeare To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message