On 12/02/2009 09:12 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Seth Vidal wrote: >> If you're looking for perfect division, sure - but the reality is this: >> >> 19K items in a single dir and ext3 and nfs and many many other things crap >> themselves returning that list. >> >> If you make 36 subdirs (26+10) performance gets DRAMATICALLY better for >> producing the same list of files. > > The problem is, a few of those starting letters still correspond to A LOT of > packages, e.g. p* matches perl-*, python-* and php-* and that's a lot of > stuff (especially Perl and Python). And adding python3-* (and perl6-*, or > are we going to use the rakudo-* namespace there?) won't make it any less. Even still, separating "p" out to a subdirectory means that subdirectory has an order of magnitude fewer files than the previous way. That's a really big difference. -- Peter If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. -- Einstein -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list