It was thus said that the Great Noel Butler once stated: > On Mon, 2012-02-13 at 22:10 -0500, Sean Conner wrote: > > > > > > So its going to open, read and close 2000 files, rather than open, read > > > and close one file, that may or may not be noticeable at > > > startup/reloads, if I was a betting man, I'd say noticeable. > > > > Nope. I just ran a program [1] that opened and read 25,018 files in 2.5 > > seconds [2]. I'd bet unnoticeable. > > Bored, so I tried it, only on a lightly used server (408 hosts) wrote > quick 'n dirty perl to split them into individuals and into a test dir > > firstly in normal state.... > > time ./rc.httpd start > Starting Apache... Done. > > real 0m0.336s > user 0m0.252s > sys 0m0.040s > > Now edited httpd.conf to exclude vhosts.conf but include > conf/test/*.conf > > time ./rc.httpd start > Starting Apache... Done. > > real 0m1.087s > user 0m0.284s > sys 0m0.040s Interesting. Both user and sys time is similar, only the real time is different, and that, I would attribute to the system having to read in the files off the disk (a cold file cache). -spc (Hmm ... looks like I lost that bet 8-) --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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