On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 11:43, Philippe Gramoull� wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry to be a little off topic here but here is the issue: > > For legal reasons we need to list all files on a filer (reiserfs FS so not > _that_ offtopic :o). > > Problem is that the filer is about 400Go and number of files according to > /proc/fs/reiserfs/*/oidmap is about 20 Million files. > > >From what we've read and seen , find is eating up all memory to the point that > the filer start to swap and then crashes. > > Would anyone know how to do that without bring the filer to its knees in terms > of memory ?
Interesting, find should not do that unless you're trying to get it to sort the results somehow. Exactly how are you running the find? -chris
