Re: Performence problem in lazarus

Am Mi, 31.05.2006, 03:07, schrieb Udi Mottelo:
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> THE PROBLEM:
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> I try to recover some files from big filesystem (18Gb from 30Gb)
> and I find that after 10 hours the load everage is intolerable and I mu=
st
> kill lazarus.  The computer is strong HP-dc7600 with 1Gb memory and doe=
s
> nothing but lazarus.

Same here.

> THE REASON:
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> Lasarus makes one flat directory (the bolcks dir) and too much
> inodes in this directory make the over head.  Simple command `ls blocks=
`
> takes more then 15 minuts !!!!!
>
> THE SOLUTION:

Use a filesystem that doesn't degrade with the number of files per
directory (ReiserFS, XFS on Linux for example).

But I like the hashing solution; it's portable.