Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4398 mails)

[Stan Glasoe <srglasoe@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 01 September 2005 5:10 am, Albert wrote:
> On Thursday 1 September 2005 at about 11:53 Darryl Gregorash wrote:
> > Albert wrote:
> >
> > Midnight Commander? Umm, ok.. but then you have to sit there while all
> > the work is being done :-) There may also be solutions which are even
> > easier than the ones suggested so far.
> >
> > >files. Each image is 125x125 pixels named according to a numeric value
> > >indicating a number on a grid which in turn represents the world.
> > > These
> >
> > Are they strictly numeric filenames?
>
> Yes they are. Filenames similar to 3634719586.png. They start at 1.png
> and go to about 16987207681.png. In the directory we copied it was a
> subset of this.
Would your company consider doing any testing of OSS software on this 
gargantuan number of files? Could be a way to give back by testing changes 
to ls, rm, find and others. You have mastered the testing environment quite 
well I'd say. 

Run this idea by the Marketing department as a talking point for Sales. 
Maybe they could get you a quad, dual-core AMD x86_64 system with a SCSI 
RAID set to play with? Or a cluster of them with a Fibre Channel array? Get 
that processing time down to 36 minutes instead of 36 hours?

>
> Albert

Just a thought,
Stan