Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1696 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Friday, 2009-07-17 at 11:14 +0100, Pit Suetterlin wrote:

> My guess that nothing is stuck, but you're just not patient enough....
> Looking at the size of the directory, it contains a LOT of files.  It takes
> time to do *anything* in this directory.
>
> We're having a CCD system that regularly dumps some 100-200000 files in one
> directory.  Doing a 'ls' or something similar easily takes up to 10 minutes,
> and that's on reiserfs - ext3 will be even slower on that, I assume.

Why is it so slow?

10 minutes * 60S/m / 100E3 files = 6mS per file.

Isn't that too much for a computer? Something is not working right... 
unless the HD has to do a seek per each file.

Perhaps the tools we use were designed years ago and are not designed for 
directories so big? :-?

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Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.
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