Directories with 2million files
David O'Brien
obrien at freebsd.org
Thu Apr 22 10:42:18 PDT 2004
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 at FreeBSD.org)
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