From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 10 20:45:17 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21A4037B401 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 20:45:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-13.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF9BA43F93 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 20:45:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) by pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h2B4jDTb006406 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 23:45:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E6D6A0F.5040704@potentialtech.com> Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 23:46:07 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030301 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: What is a practical max nujmber of files in a directory Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Question for the gurus or anyone who has done any test on filesystem performance. Where is the point at which a directory has too many files in it? Mainly with regard to performance degredation? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message