Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 18:17:54 -0400 From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: shih@math.jussieu.fr Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fast du Message-ID: <F71BE17E-385E-44FF-96F5-93112CBB430E@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20060517213512.GE10915@math.jussieu.fr> References: <20060517213512.GE10915@math.jussieu.fr>
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On May 17, 2006, at 5:35 PM, Albert Shih wrote: > I search some technics/command/anything can make very fast =ABdu=BB =20= > especialy > when in the file system there are lot of lot of hard-link. Set up a swap-based RAM disk and run your du commands against files =20 on that...? Otherwise, if you have to do the work against stuff on a hard drive, =20 try to do single-threaded I/O while doing these du's to avoid =20 thrashing the drive heads around more than needed. --=20 -Chuck
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