Dirk Mueller wrote: > > Now consider a good amount of fragmentation because those files get created > over time (weeks, months etc). and you quickly degenerade to a scanning > speed of maybe 10-20 files per second (Athlon 800, IBM 60GB HD with roughly > 35MB/s linear read). It was that horrible that I quickly returned to mbox > for those lists with high amount of traffic. I think only a repacker can properly cure performance problems of slowly accumulating files and directories . September 2002. We can do other things that will gain 5 percent here and there, but the repacker will be the real cure. Hans - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
