On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:34 AM, Andrey Kuzmin <andrey.v.kuz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:26 AM, Steve <steve.jack...@norman.com> wrote: >> thats not the issue here, as they are spread out in a folder structure based >> on an integer split into hex blocks... 00/00/00/01 etc... >> >> but the number of pointers involved with all these files, and directories >> (which are files) >> must have an impact on a system with limited RAM? >> >> There is 4GB RAM in this system btw... > > If any significant portion of these 400M files is accessed on a > regular basis, you'd be > (1) stressing ARC to the limits > (2) stressing spindles so that any concurrent sequential I/O would suffer. > > Small files are always an issue, try moving them off HDDs onto a > mirrored SSDs, not necessarily most expensive ones. 400M 2K files is
1K meant, fat fingers. Regards, Andrey > just 400GB, within the reach of a few SSDs. > > > Regards, > Andrey > > >> -- >> This message posted from opensolaris.org >> _______________________________________________ >> zfs-discuss mailing list >> zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >> > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
