On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: |11K line is no big deal. I have run grep queries on 85MB cobol source |dump in around 20sec when I was working on a performance tuning |project. That was a Pentium 200 with 32MB RAM.(OK I got the system |administrator off GNOME first but that' a different story...)
It also depends on the file system ... and how fragmented or unfragmented the file is... on a FAT partition the file will always be fragmented. while on ext2 if the partition has enough empty space it may not be all that fragmented.(ofcourse the ext2 term is non-contiguous ! :o) Kingsly _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
