Performance of fileset containing a large number of files

2011-08-18 Thread Julien LF
Hello, I am facing the same "problem" as mentioned in this thread dating of 2006: http://ant.1045680.n5.nabble.com/Performance-of-fileset-related-operations-with-a-large-number-of-files-td1361341.html That is, I'm using ant to build a tar archive of a directory containing 100,000+ files, and the

Re: Performance of fileset containing a large number of files

2011-08-18 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On 2011-08-18, Julien LF wrote: > That is, I'm using ant to build a tar archive of a directory > containing 100,000+ files, and the operation is much slower than when > simply doing it on the command-line (42 minutes vs 5 minutes). > From what I understand most of the time is spent building the f

Re: Performance of fileset containing a large number of files

2011-08-18 Thread Julien LF
> 2011/8/18 Stefan Bodewig : > Depends on which version of Ant you use.  Unless it is 1.8.2 upgrading > could help as we've improved scanning perfromance with almost every > release. I have some environments stuck with Java 1.3 so i planned to use Ant 1.7.1. I gave Ant 1.8.2 a try (I should have t