Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 12:40:41 +1300 (NZDT) From: Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org> To: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> Cc: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>, Anatoliy Dmytriyev <tolid@plab.ku.dk>, "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: UFS_DIRHASH - your opinion Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0110251238420.1929-100000@vimfuego.saarinen.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0110241830320.88834-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us>
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On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Chris Dillon wrote: > No, it could in fact hurt performance, if I understand correctly. > Squid is smart enough to spread the thousands or millions of files it > keeps under lots and lots of sub-directories. Each individual > directory shouldn't have more than about 255 entries if you set things > up right. Besides, even if Squid didn't spread things out, it doesn't > need to get a listing of all the files in a directory (except in the > event of a dirty cache that needs to be rebuilt) since it keeps its > own metadata. Thanks. Are there any good hints and tips for running Squid under FreeBSD? On Linux, a file system like ReiserFS is supposedly the best, as it's good with lots of little files. -- Regards, Juha To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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