> I did some testing about optimal number of files per folder for our package > format and 3750 files per directory are way too many. The file system is > much more efficient if you spread those files into sub-folders. We got the > best performance with a 3-level sparse folder index (files are stored on > the third folder level).
That's interesting. If I cut the files to 1875 per folder, the save takes half as long. The time cost seems very linear. What did you find to be a good max per folder? Trygve _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com