On 1/2/03 at 8:58 AM Mikko Työläjärvi wrote: |On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, MikeM wrote: | |> On 1/2/03 at 3:13 PM Roman Neuhauser wrote: |> |> |# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-01-02 09:01:27 -0500: |> |> I'm considering setting up my server as a mirror site for the |> |> freedb.org lookup database. Unfortunately, I've seem to have |> |> run into a stumbling block. The server app requires over |> |> 250,000 files in a single directory. Each file is about 2k |> |> in size. | |It can be argued that the application is poorly designed...
There's no arguing. It *is* poorly designed. I would have used a hash to spread the files across multiple directories. Unfortunately, I didn't design it. | |> I already have UFS_DIRHASH specified in my kernel config file. :-( | |Maybe you can tweak some sysctls: | | atlas% sysctl -a | grep dirhash | vfs.ufs.dirhash_minsize: 2560 | vfs.ufs.dirhash_maxmem: 2097152 | vfs.ufs.dirhash_mem: 795239 | vfs.ufs.dirhash_docheck: 0 | |Try playing with with "vfs.ufs.dirhash_maxmem". I suppose it has to |be at least as large as the size of the Directory From Hell. Thanks, I'll give them a try. |... |It would probably be better to patch the dang server to use a |multi-level directory structure instead. That thought has crossed my mind. Many thanks for the assist. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
