From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-03-05T03:04:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Better performance than native unix commands?

On 04.03.2008 02:10, Ma Sa wrote:
> I have an issue with nfs and listing a large amount of files that I am
> wondering if I can solve with ruby. I know that ruby has better
> performance in some instances than a bash shell script so I am wondering
> if anyone has experience or some examples of how this might work...
> 
> I have a directory with a large amount of files that is mounted over
> nfs. The network is gigabit and so are the nic's. The servers are very
> high end so the hardware / network performance is not the bottleneck.
> However, sometimes it can take a very long time to list out the files
> contained within a directory.
> 
> I will do an ls and it might take 5 minutes to retrieve a response.
> 
> Would this be faster if I were to do the same ls function using the ruby
> api?

Did you try it out?  What happened?  My guess is that it's as slow 
because likely the timing is dominated by IO.

Kind regards

	robert