From: Tim Joyce <tim@hoop.co.uk>
To: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
To: stuart@comodo.net
To: Gene Selkov, Jr. <selkovjr@mcs.anl.gov>
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] 8k limit
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 07:29:58 +0100
Message-ID: <005201bf2046$159bb9f0$0501a8c0@noonoo> (raw)
References: <199910270541.AAA25460@antares>
>
> For example, my file system can have 1064960 files in it (one can find
> that out with fsck), but the practical constraint will be much
> lower. I find it difficult to deal with 30000 files in one directory,
> for example. The time it takes to open a file in such directory is
> usually on the order of seconds.
I don't know if this info is useful, but;
I have a directory with 150K files in it, and can open files in it without
noticable delay (this is not through postgres). Before setting up this dir,
i tried to find out the limit of how many files is sensible. I couldn't
find any info so just thought i'd try it, and it appears to work fine. If
you think I am going to hit problems (I am serving jpgs from this directory
for a web site), please let me know.
running on
Red Hat Linux release 5.2 (Apollo)
Kernel 2.0.36 on an i686
cheers
timj
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