Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 22:33:41 -0500 (CDT) From: kf7nn@kf7nn.com To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, George Vagner <vagner@spdc.ti.com> Subject: Re: Softupdates Message-ID: <XFMail.980510223546.kf7nn@kf7nn.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.96.980511124643.18401A-100000@tui.pinnacle.co.nz>
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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 <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz> >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >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
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