Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 14:06:26 -0500 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@freebsd.org> To: Stuart Henderson <stuart@eclipse.net.uk> Cc: "Jules D. Salter" <julian@vas-net.net>, "'freebsd-isp@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: NIS / NFS / Qmail Advice Message-ID: <9471.922993586@noop.colo.erols.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 01 Apr 1999 18:14:23 %2B0100." <3703A96F.A2E5775E@eclipse.net.uk>
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Stuart Henderson wrote in message ID <3703A96F.A2E5775E@eclipse.net.uk>: > /usr/home/eclman> root@carme# time ls /var/mail|wc -l > 7464 > > real 0m0.085s > user 0m0.077s > sys 0m0.006s > > not too bad, although I don't like having that many files and expect to > move it to a better structure sometime soon (in particular, ls -l sucks > very badly with this many files) - far better to use a hashing function > to split users into different subdirs. The `-f' flag to ls should help. Though its still going to suck. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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