Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 10:42:15 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Directories with 2million files Message-ID: <20040422174215.GA14941@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <4087F263.2000609@centtech.com> References: <40867A5D.9010600@centtech.com> <20040421152233.GA23501@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> <40868F08.20301@centtech.com> <20040422150120.GB78422@dragon.nuxi.com> <4087F263.2000609@centtech.com>
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On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 11:27:15AM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote: > >It used 260MB of VM, not physial RAM. Even with less in your machine, it > >would have worked fine -- no one is going to have less than than much > >virutal memory (i.e., swap) if they run Netscape on the same machine. > > > Ok - here's the snippet from 'top': > > Mem: 268M Active, 147M Inact, 155M Wired, 32M Cache, 86M Buf, 144M Free > Swap: 1024M Total, 2356K Used, 1022M Free > > PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND > 36102 anderson 132 0 263M 263M RUN 0:02 68.63% 9.57% ls > 36103 anderson 119 0 1180K 560K RUN 0:00 5.60% 0.78% wc > > However, I'm not sure about the Netscape comment - I don't really know > what you are referring to, but I'd guess most likely a person with > 2million files in one directory isn't going to be running Netscape on it > anyhow. The comment was that no one would be running a FreeBSD machine with less virtual memory than 260MB. Even the smallest desktop needs more than that to run Netscape (for a long period of time). So it isn't like your example is going to crash on the majority of FreeBSD machines. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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