Re: Cache size

Juliusz Chroboczek <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.polipo.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>> Just make sure you use a filesystem that is able to handle huge
>> directories.

> In my experience on FreeBSD, once the cache grow over 100G, the
> performance hit is significant.

Yes, BSD's FFS doesn't hash large directories -- open will perform
a linear search in the directory.  You shouldn't see such a hit with
ReiserFS, XFS or ext4.

-- Juliusz

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