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To: Stuart Henderson <stuart@eclipse.net.uk>
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From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: NIS / NFS / Qmail Advice 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 01 Apr 1999 18:14:23 +0100."
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Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 14:06:26 -0500
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Stuart Henderson wrote in message ID
<3703A96F.A2E5775E@eclipse.net.uk>:
> /usr/home/eclman> root@carme# time ls /var/mail|wc -l
>     7464
> 
> real    0m0.085s
> user    0m0.077s
> sys     0m0.006s
> 
> not too bad, although I don't like having that many files and expect to
> move it to a better structure sometime soon (in particular, ls -l sucks
> very badly with this many files) - far better to use a hashing function
> to split users into different subdirs.

The `-f' flag to ls should help. Though its still going to suck.


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