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Date:      Thu, 22 Apr 2004 08:01:20 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Directories with 2million files
Message-ID:  <20040422150120.GB78422@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <40868F08.20301@centtech.com>
References:  <40867A5D.9010600@centtech.com> <20040421152233.GA23501@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> <40868F08.20301@centtech.com>

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On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 10:11:04AM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote:
> Doing  'ls -f' works, but still manages to munch up about 260MB of ram, 
> which runs since I have enough, but otherwise would not.

It used 260MB of VM, not physial RAM.  Even with less in your machine, it
would have worked fine -- no one is going to have less than than much
virutal memory (i.e., swap) if they run Netscape on the same machine.

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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