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From: Michael Riess <mlriess@gmx.de>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: 15,000 tables
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 15:51:37 +0100
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Hi David,

> 
> with 15,000 tables you are talking about a LOT of files to hold these 
> (30,000 files with one index each and each database being small enough 
> to not need more then one file to hold it), on linux ext2/3 this many 
> files in one directory will slow you down horribly. 

We use ReiserFS, and I don't think that this is causing the problem ... 
although it would probably help to split the directory up using tablespaces.

But thanks for the suggestion!



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