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- From: bousch@topo.matups.fr (Thierry Bousch)
- Subject: Re: Large directories on Minix partitions.
- Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 17:41:38 +0200 (MET DST)
- In-Reply-To: <199406061434.AAA10041@seldon.apanix.apana.org.au> from "Michael Smith" at Jun 7, 94 00:04:41 am
-
- Hello Michael,
-
- > There were about 1100 files left at that point, and it took a good
- > couple hours to delete them all. This is on a TT, with an admittedly
- > rather slow disk (70M MFM running RLL on an Adaptec 4070), but even so,
- > five seconds per file is a bit sluggish. This also totally spammed
- > the machine, but the progress indicator gave me faith.
-
- I have also encountered this problem with a minixfs directory containing
- ~500 files. Apparently, thrashing occurs when the directory contents is
- too big to fit in the cache. You should increase the cache sizes in
- minixfs (default is 10 Kb) and recompile.
-
- Thierry.
-