martin f [EMAIL PROTECTED]@Wed, 30 Jan 2002 22:26:46 +0100: > > It was unset (which means a default of 2), but now I set it to 1. Seems to > > be a lot faster now, also at boot time. Thanks! > you know, strange intuition tells me the opposite, but i guess it's > a non-uniform curve and for low traffic, a lower value might actually > be better... > Of course, deeper queue dirs are meant to accelerate things. But not on low-load systems like mine. Scanning 256 directories containing less than ten files is not useful, just a waste of blocks. :-/
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