Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 11:09:55 +0930 From: "Paul A. Hoadley" <paulh@logicsquad.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: find -exec surprisingly slow Message-ID: <20040815013954.GC25751@grover.logicsquad.net> In-Reply-To: <20040814233234.GA56333@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> References: <20040814230143.GB8610@grover.logicsquad.net> <20040814233234.GA56333@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
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On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 01:32:35AM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: > You seem to have missed the fact that operations on very large > directories (which a directory with 400K files in it certainly > qualifies as) simply are slow. Good point. I had overlooked that. > Reducing the number of processes spawned will certainly help some, > but a better idea is to not have so many files in a single directory > - that is just asking for trouble. I'm not sure that I can make qmail do anything else. These are spams sent to non-existent addresses at my domain, being caught by .qmail-default. What I am going to do is clear out the Maildir daily instead of monthly, though. Collecting them has become a significant drain on disk space---the 400K spams are the result of about a month and a half of collection. -- Paul. w http://logicsquad.net/ h http://paul.hoadley.name/
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