--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Well, from your description of the differences, > there > >being no subdirectories under queue/mess/*/, around > >500k is the total number of files under > queue/mess/*/ > > Try "ls" next time or just echo :-) > > So you ran: > > find queue/mess/* > > and not > find queue/mess > > > The former would cause the shell to sort the 500K > entries first > also.
hmm, I don't know about solaris but on linux echo would bomb at times. We have tried changing the queue size checking to that. ls did not cut it. > > 500K files causes around 500K random I/O ops with > Sun find and > about a number of sequential I/Os so with GNU find > (sufficient to read > the directory) > > Disks are not that fast in random I/Os. Yes I know. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
