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One other thing that helps out a lot with this is to use some form of
RAID that spans. A single drive or mirrored drives that try to read a
bunch of files while also doing regular tasks would be impossible with
that many files, in fact Explorer is prone to crashing under those
circumstances. I find that RAID 5 with 5 drives can easily handle
100,000 files in a matter of seconds, but it seems to get worse with
more files in a sort of exponential rate. Matt Colbeck, Andrew wrote: I agree with the changes advised in this thread for registry settings. Let me point out that these are meant to be applied on the server where the files are, and not, for example, to a workstation that is trying to manipulate a folder over the network.I've been trying out Servant Salamander from http://www.altap.cz/ which I investigated because I was looking for a good modern implementation of Midnight Commander (which is in turn a "good modern implementation" of NC or Norton Commander). It gets my highest praise: It Just Works. I can use it over my WAN to my Declude spam folder and wait less than 90 seconds to get a complete directory listing with over 380,000 files in it (and that's a busy server with none of the NTFS performance reg hacks). Tip: If you really work interactively with folders this big, turn off the automatic refresh in the configuration options. There's a free older version and a current version that is cheap. Andrew. P.s. Ever used Sysinternals.com tools to monitor explorer.exe with filemon.exe or regmon.exe? It's incredible how much extra work Explorer is doing behind the scenes, so it's no wonder that a light file manager can do the job quicker. In Mark Russinovich's blog, he pointed out just how bad that is (which has since been optimized in Vista): http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/06/explosion-of-audit-records.html-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Dave Doherty Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 2:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Max number of files in directory? Does anyone know of either a hard or practical limit on the number of files that a directory may contain under Windows XP? -Dave Doherty Skywaves, Inc. --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.--- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com. |
