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Date:      Thu, 18 May 2006 01:37:47 +0200
From:      Albert Shih <shih@math.jussieu.fr>
To:        Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Cc:        shih@math.jussieu.fr, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Fast du
Message-ID:  <20060517233747.GB17856@math.jussieu.fr>
In-Reply-To: <F71BE17E-385E-44FF-96F5-93112CBB430E@mac.com>
References:  <20060517213512.GE10915@math.jussieu.fr> <F71BE17E-385E-44FF-96F5-93112CBB430E@mac.com>

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 Le 17/05/2006 à 18:17:54-0400, Charles Swiger a écrit
> On May 17, 2006, at 5:35 PM, Albert Shih wrote:
> >I search some technics/command/anything can make very fast «du»  
> >especialy
> >when in the file system there are lot of lot of hard-link.
> 
> Set up a swap-based RAM disk and run your du commands against files  
> on that...?

What ? I don't understand. I must do many time a «du» on a 2 To
filesystem... I think it's pretty hard to do that on ram. 
> 
> Otherwise, if you have to do the work against stuff on a hard drive,  
> try to do single-threaded I/O while doing these du's to avoid  
> thrashing the drive heads around more than needed.

OK...and how can I do that ? Maybe some documentation ?

Lots of thanks.

Regards.
--
Albert SHIH
Universite de Paris 7 (Denis DIDEROT)
U.F.R. de Mathematiques.
7 ième étage, plateau D, bureau 10
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Thu May 18 01:36:02 CEST 2006



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