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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.belwue.de!News.Uni-Marburg.DE!news.th-darmstadt.de!hrz-ws11.hrz.uni-kassel.de!phase23!citylink.dinoex.sub.org!peter From: peter@citylink.dinoex.sub.org (Peter Much) Subject: Re: When did this become linux.advocacy Organization: Buero fuer Sektenforschung und Qualitaetspruefung in der Esoterik Message-ID: <DAnIFG.7EE@citylink.dinoex.sub.org> References: <marcus.114.00E9749F@ccelab.iastate.edu> <3s8pet$m65@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> <3s9vmk$f9p@agate.berkeley.edu> <3sboim$ue@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> Date: Sat, 24 Jun 1995 00:23:39 GMT Lines: 27 In article <3sboim$ue@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>, J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: >>on comp.os.linux.advocacy) I complained how sluggish I/O felt (30 >>seconds to recursively delete a directory in Linux took 45 seconds in >>FreeBSD 2.0_RELEASE). True. Usually even more, when packing/unpacking complex directory-trees from/into tar-archives. The other point is: Keep a directory with ~2000 files, and run ls (or ls -l) under linux/ext2. Then run it under *BSD; about Factor 25 faster. This seems typically linux/ext2 Filesystem, it increases dir- ectory accesses exponentially in an unfunny way when the #files exceeds about 800. With *BSD, i haven't yet reached any limit of annoying behaviour due to structural overload concerning the filesystem. Anyway, my ext2 filesystems are quite old releases. Maybe they got better in the meantime. Peter -- Write to: Peter Much * Koelnische Str. 22 * D-34117 Kassel * +49-561-774961 peter@citylink.dinoex.sub.org much@hrz.uni-kassel.de p.much@asco.nev.sub.de