On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 01:30:14PM +0100, nets...@avisoft.f9.co.uk wrote: > In article <54ae82a927ch...@chris-johnson.org.uk>, > cj <ch...@chris-johnson.org.uk> wrote: > > I can see why RISC OS gets indigestion with the cache. Have just > > deleted the cache on the Iyonix, and there were over 21,000 > > directories and over 19,000 files. > > Yes, there seem to be lots of directories - many empty. The non-empty > ones often only contain directories. And the ones containing files rarely > have more than 1 file in! > > Strikes me that there are too many directory levels. Insetad of having > !Cache.Caches.Default.NetSurf.m.A.3.G.A3GKETD > it may be better to have > !Cache.Caches.Default.NetSurf.mA3G.A3GKETD > > I suspect much of the delay for small files is due to checking, creating, > and traversing directories!
The depth was chosen so it would work on poor-quality file systems that only allow a handful of entries in a directory, such as FileCore :) B.
