From: Jano Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2008-11-10T21:48:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Moving large amount of files, 1.750.000+

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 09:28, Saji N. Hameed <saji@apcc21.net> wrote:
> This may be a naive suggestion. It may be worthwhile to see if there
> is a benefit in parallelize the process using Threads (split the transfer
> jobs among multiple threads ??? ... )

I guess Ara Howard's threadify
(http://codeforpeople.com/lib/ruby/threadify/) might be handy.

The usefulness of more threads depends on network saturation - measure
your network/disk throughput
using plain system copy (maybe several parallel ones), then measure
what your script does.
I'm afraid if you're going over ethernet, one thread would be enough.

I'd also suggest using File.directory? for testing if the file is
directory, instead of searching for '.'

Jano