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Re: Large directories on Minix partitions.

To: miff@apanix.apana.org.au (Michael Smith)
Subject: Re: Large directories on Minix partitions.
From: bousch@topo.matups.fr (Thierry Bousch)
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 17:41:38 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: mint@atari.archive.umich.edu (Liste MiNT)
In-reply-to: <199406061434.AAA10041@seldon.apanix.apana.org.au> from "Michael Smith" at Jun 7, 94 00:04:41 am

Hello Michael,

> There were about 1100 files left at that point, and it took a good
> couple hours to delete them all.  This is on a TT, with an admittedly
> rather slow disk (70M MFM running RLL on an Adaptec 4070), but even so,
> five seconds per file is a bit sluggish.  This also totally spammed
> the machine, but the progress indicator gave me faith.

I have also encountered this problem with a minixfs directory containing
~500 files. Apparently, thrashing occurs when the directory contents is
too big to fit in the cache. You should increase the cache sizes in
minixfs (default is 10 Kb) and recompile.

Thierry.

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