From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 10 20:38:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA28126 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 10 May 1998 20:38:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mutsgo.kf7nn.com (mutsgo.kf7nn.com [204.251.27.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA28121 for ; Sun, 10 May 1998 20:38:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kf7nn@mutsgo.kf7nn.com) Received: (from kf7nn@localhost) by mutsgo.kf7nn.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id WAA01581; Sun, 10 May 1998 22:35:50 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kf7nn) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.1 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 22:33:41 -0500 (CDT) From: kf7nn@kf7nn.com To: Jonathan Chen Subject: Re: Softupdates Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, George Vagner Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG holy $*#& !! thats fast now. thanks for turning me on to that command! I used to wait forever to find / -name "blah" -print now locate did it in a microsecond! On 11-May-98 Jonathan Chen wrote: >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 ---------------------------------- E-Mail: kf7nn@kf7nn.com Date: 10-May-98 Time: 22:33:41 This message was sent by XFMail ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message