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