Re: Performence problem in lazarus

 	Does the new version take care the following problem and
 	the hash solution?

Bye,
   Udi


On Wed, 31 May 2006, Udi Mottelo wrote:

>
> 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.
>
> 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:
>
> 	I suggest to adopt the terminfo way or some mail spool way ie
> 	split the blocks dir to subdirectories by prefix of the filename.
> 	In following example I use the first four charachters and reduce
> 	the number of inode/dir in 10^3:
>
> 	the file 0000001 will be saved in subdirectory 0000
> 	the file 0000002 will be saved in subdirectory 0000
> 	...
> 	the file 0001295 will be saved in subdirectory 0001
> 	...
> 	the file 0002004 will be saved in subdirectory 0002
> 	...
> 	the file 9998749 will be saved in subdirectory 9998
>
>
> 	Unfortunately I'm not good programer and I don't know PERL, so
> 	I'll appreciate if somebody will help me to make the changes
> 	because right now I'm stuck.  I hope that it will help more users
> 	of TCT because in this days the	filesystems became more bigger and
> 	this patch can be real improvement.
>
>
> Thanks in advanced,
>  Udi
>
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