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Date:      Thu, 01 Apr 1999 14:06:26 -0500
From:      "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@freebsd.org>
To:        Stuart Henderson <stuart@eclipse.net.uk>
Cc:        "Jules D. Salter" <julian@vas-net.net>, "'freebsd-isp@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: NIS / NFS / Qmail Advice 
Message-ID:  <9471.922993586@noop.colo.erols.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 01 Apr 1999 18:14:23 %2B0100." <3703A96F.A2E5775E@eclipse.net.uk> 

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Stuart Henderson wrote in message ID
<3703A96F.A2E5775E@eclipse.net.uk>:
> /usr/home/eclman> root@carme# time ls /var/mail|wc -l
>     7464
> 
> real    0m0.085s
> user    0m0.077s
> sys     0m0.006s
> 
> not too bad, although I don't like having that many files and expect to
> move it to a better structure sometime soon (in particular, ls -l sucks
> very badly with this many files) - far better to use a hashing function
> to split users into different subdirs.

The `-f' flag to ls should help. Though its still going to suck.


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