> If not, i know that ext3 can have ten of thousands files in a directory. > But commande like 'ls' will become slower and slower ... > Is this also slowing mysql ?
I believe it would have to. There is a patch somewhere (I don't know if it's maintained) for adding indexed directories to ext2/ext3 to help this problem, or you could use a different filesystem, such as ReiserFS that indexes directories out of the box. In an environment where directory accesses far outnumber directory modifications, you should see a good improvement if you have 20K files in the directory. ('ls' slows down for reasons besides reading the directory; it usually sorts its output, and it's often set up to guess file type for each of the files. Turn those off and it usually goes quite quickly.) --Pete --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php