On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 08:54:51AM +1000, Grant wrote:
> I've had this problem. When a user zipped up 100+ MB of mp3's and was
> trying to send the attachment to a university 10 MB quoted shell. As it
> was trying to resend often it would need to open the file to read it, that
> created lots of hard drive activity.
I find that hard to believe. The open cost of a file is not a function
of its size. Leastwise not on any Unix I've ever heard of.
As others have said, let's see the logs rather than speculate.
Regards.
