while it won't kill it, it certainly in any higher graphical sort of directory view (windows explorer, windows commander, etc.) will run the processor at 100% and drag everything else way down... you should try to keep directory entries to a minimum as a rule of thumb we see 400-500 files per directory being the high mark...
that is across different windows variations.... your mileage will vary.. but not so much... I have had 10k files in a directory spinning the listing out from a DOS prompt... in that mode it is fine... pure listing... any other way forget it... -paris -----Original Message----- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 12:28 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CFmail Recount > It could also be that thousands of files in the same directory > on a windows box kills the file system in some way. I don't think this'll "kill" the filesystem, but it will make it extremely unresponsive. I've seen situations with 50k+ files in a single directory, and it just took a long time to retrieve a file within the directory, or perform any operation within that directory. This was on a laptop, of all places. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
