Re: Performence problem in lazarus

On Wed, 31 May 2006, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:

> Am Mi, 31.05.2006, 03:07, schrieb Udi Mottelo:
>>
>
>> THE PROBLEM:
>>
>>
>> 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 must
>> kill lazarus.  The computer is strong HP-dc7600 with 1Gb memory and does
>> nothing but lazarus.
>
> Same here.
>
>> THE REASON:
>>
>>
>> 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.

 	Thanks Ralf, I use ext3 on CentOS (RedHet) now, I'll try the
 	XFS - It force me to reorganize my disk partitions  :-(

Bye,
  Udi