> > On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 08:24, Ben Yau wrote: > > Hi again > > > > Perhaps I should just state he original issue (in case I am > barking up the > > wrong tree by looking at file-max/inode-max). > > > > The programmer wlil want to do some tracking. the tracking > will take place > > every month.. So we are looking at one main root dir, 12 > subdirs (one for > > each month), and up to 1.5 million files generated per month. > > > > What is the proper way to do this? > > I just realized my last message was too cryptic. > > You really don't want to start creating a directory with up to 1.5 > million files. The performance will be horrendous. > > What you would really want to do is have your tracking application use a > database to keep the tracking records. Will also make it much easier to > search/retrieve information. > > Regards, > Ed > Yes I agree with you. I'm glad you pointed it out also. At the same time I emailed this request to the mailing list (a lot of it out of curiosity) i sent an email back to the programmre who requested it. Doing some simple calcluatoins basically they would be creating a file every 2 seconds (!!!) -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
