From: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] fossil speed
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 21:47:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee9e417a0501261847758e185f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0501261536440.2588@fbsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
fossil is not smart about its handling of directory
entries, so removing n files is an O(n^2) operation.
a directory with 40,000 files is going to take a little
while to remove. 200 directories of 200 files each
should be noticeably faster.
russ
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-27 2:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-26 2:00 [9fans] browse /sys/src YAMANASHI Takeshi
2005-01-26 2:27 ` Kenji Okamoto
2005-01-26 2:31 ` Michael H. Collins
2005-01-26 2:45 ` boyd, rounin
2005-01-26 3:50 ` Russ Cox
2005-01-26 4:28 ` Kenji Okamoto
2005-01-26 4:39 ` Kenji Okamoto
2005-01-26 8:49 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2005-01-26 10:00 ` Matthias Teege
2005-01-26 21:32 ` [9fans] fossil speed rog
2005-01-26 21:36 ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-01-26 22:09 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-01-26 22:18 ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-01-26 22:22 ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-01-26 22:48 ` rog
2005-01-26 22:26 ` rog
2005-01-26 22:13 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-01-26 22:15 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-01-26 22:40 ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-01-27 2:47 ` Russ Cox [this message]
2005-01-27 19:20 ` rog
2005-01-27 7:51 ` Fco. J. Ballesteros
2005-01-27 21:09 ` geoff
2005-01-27 21:23 ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-01-27 21:35 ` Russ Cox
2005-01-27 22:28 ` geoff
2005-01-28 2:11 ` Kenji Okamoto
2005-01-28 4:08 ` geoff
2005-01-28 4:39 ` Kenji Okamoto
2005-01-28 4:54 ` geoff
2005-01-27 3:39 ` boyd, rounin
2005-01-26 9:55 ` [9fans] browse /sys/src Fco. J. Ballesteros
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