Re: Enhancement request -- performance improvement

2008-04-17 Thread rh
Jim Meyering wrote: rh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Patches welcome, but it's already pretty well-optimized, since it uses fts. Sorry, fts? My TLA guessing is DOA these days. It's not a TLA, but rather the name of a function in the C library. Try "man fts

Re: Enhancement request -- performance improvement

2008-04-17 Thread rh
Jim Meyering wrote: rh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, Running du -sk on an apache disk cache containing 10GB of data and 30,000 directories and files I see du using maybe .03% of the cpu. It takes an hour for it to complete. If you have an old version, and depending on ho

Re: Enhancement request -- performance improvement

2008-04-17 Thread rh
Yes, it is io bound. Darn it. I looked at iostat and saw right away. I first looked at vmstat but I was lulled into .believing. Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to rh on 4/16/2008 12:14 PM: | Hello, | Running du -sk on an apache disk cache

Enhancement request -- performance improvement

2008-04-16 Thread rh
Hello, Running du -sk on an apache disk cache containing 10GB of data and 30,000 directories and files I see du using maybe .03% of the cpu. It takes an hour for it to complete. Are there any plans to make du multi-threaded? Or otherwise improve it's performance? Is it filesystem sensitiv