[#41581] Ruby 1.6.7 dieing of segfault — Dossy <dossy@...>

I've got something that's fairly reproducible in 1.6.7. Is

11 messages 2002/06/02
[#41582] Re: Ruby 1.6.7 dieing of segfault — Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu.nokada@...> 2002/06/02

Hi,

[#41660] dynamic attr_accessor?? — Markus Jais <mjais@...>

hello

16 messages 2002/06/03

[#41755] HTML Parser suggestions wanted — Ned Konz <ned@...>

I've written an HTML parser that builds trees from HTML source. After

13 messages 2002/06/04

[#41809] eval and local variable — "Park Heesob" <phasis@...>

15 messages 2002/06/05

[#41819] mod_ruby and module space — "Sean O'Dell" <sean@...>

It seems that if I execute a script using mod_ruby, I cannot call

18 messages 2002/06/05

[#41867] Pascal-like 'with' statement? — Philip Mak <pmak@...>

Is there something like Pascal's with statement? I'd like to turn this

18 messages 2002/06/06

[#41919] 1-second events — Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>

I need to create an event that occurs exactly once per second.

15 messages 2002/06/06

[#42086] ANN: REXML 2.3.5 && 2.2.3 — Sean Russell <ser@...>

<posted & mailed>

31 messages 2002/06/09
[#42091] Re: ANN: REXML 2.3.5 && 2.2.3 — Sean Russell <ser@...> 2002/06/09

<posted & mailed>

[#42092] RE: ANN: REXML 2.3.5 && 2.2.3 — <james@...> 2002/06/09

> Well, XMLSchema may be troublesome to interpret, but it isn't

[#42192] ruby-dev summary 17252-17356 — Minero Aoki <aamine@...>

Hi all,

81 messages 2002/06/11
[#42290] Re: a new block parameter/variable notation (Re: ruby-dev summary 17252-17356) — Kent Dahl <kentda@...> 2002/06/12

Not wanting to flog a dead horse, but I just wonder what the final word

[#42295] Re: a new block parameter/variable notation (Re: ruby-dev summary 17252-17356) — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2002/06/12

Hi,

[#42455] Application server & web developement enviroment — "Radu M. Obad磚 <whizkid@...>

Howdy,

14 messages 2002/06/14
[#42459] Re: Application server & web developement enviroment — Austin Ziegler <austin@...> 2002/06/14

On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 15:55:31 +0900, Radu M. Obadwrote:

[#42472] ANN: Programmierung in Ruby — "Juergen Katins" <katins.juergen@...>

Programmierung in Ruby Online gibt es jetzt mit ausfrlichem

14 messages 2002/06/14

[#42504] Are Unix tools just slow? — Chris Gehlker <gehlker@...>

Awhile back I was asking for help with a unixy way to search the mounted

48 messages 2002/06/14
[#42516] Re: Are Unix tools just slow? — "Daniel P. Zepeda" <daniel@...> 2002/06/15

On Sat, 15 Jun 2002 07:14:38 +0900

[#42506] Re: Are Unix tools just slow? — Rick Bradley <rick@...> 2002/06/14

* Chris Gehlker (gehlker@fastq.com) [020614 17:18]:

[#42512] Re: Are Unix tools just slow? — Chris Gehlker <gehlker@...> 2002/06/15

On 6/14/02 3:34 PM, "Rick Bradley" <rick@rickbradley.com> wrote:

[#42513] opengl for ruby, please help — ccos <ccos@...> 2002/06/15

unix newby failing miserably here:

[#42507] mpg123 — Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...>

Hi,

15 messages 2002/06/14

[#42546] File.new('foo', 0600 , 'wb') — Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...>

Hi,

21 messages 2002/06/15
[#42552] Re: File.new('foo', 0600 , 'wb') — Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...> 2002/06/15

Dossy wrote:

[#42591] Kernel#select questions — Wilkes Joiner <boognish23@...>

I'm trying to track down a bug where Kernel#select is returning [[],[],[]] as

12 messages 2002/06/17

[#42617] eRuby on Mac OS X — Jim Menard <jimm@...>

I've searched ruby-talk for this topic, and the only messages I found show

13 messages 2002/06/17

[#42674] REXML in C — "Radu M. Obad磚 <whizkid@...>

Hi,

20 messages 2002/06/18

[#42771] Why is I/O slow? — Clifford Heath <cjh_nospam@...>

Ok, folk, time to try again. It's nothing to do with SHA-1.

61 messages 2002/06/20
[#42831] Re: Why is I/O slow? — Clifford Heath <cjh_nospam@...> 2002/06/21

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

[#42836] RE: Why is I/O slow? — "Mike Campbell" <michael_s_campbell@...> 2002/06/21

> With respect, this doesn't sound like a smart idea. The glibc folk have

[#42838] Re: Why is I/O slow? — Albert Wagner <alwagner@...> 2002/06/21

On Thursday 20 June 2002 10:10 pm, Mike Campbell wrote:

[#42839] Re: Why is I/O slow? — Austin Ziegler <austin@...> 2002/06/21

On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 12:16:24 +0900, Albert Wagner wrote:

[#42928] GOOD DEAL — "DR. ISA BELLO" <dr_isa@...>

FROM:DR ISA BELLO

11 messages 2002/06/22

[#42982] No exceptions from String#to_i — "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>

I've been bitten by this before... maybe

19 messages 2002/06/24
[#42983] Re: No exceptions from String#to_i — ts <decoux@...> 2002/06/24

>>>>> "H" == Hal E Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> writes:

[#42986] Re: No exceptions from String#to_i — Nikodemus Siivola <tsiivola@...> 2002/06/24

[#43122] Re: help (ruby-talk ML) — Benjamin Peterson <bjsp123@...>

20 messages 2002/06/27
[#43123] Re: help (ruby-talk ML) — Dave Thomas <Dave@...> 2002/06/27

Benjamin Peterson <bjsp123@yahoo.com> writes:

[#43124] RE: help (ruby-talk ML) — Bob Calco <robert.calco@...> 2002/06/27

Yes, I would gladly volunteer considerable effort to this end. I have

[#43147] Ruby on Mac OS X — Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...>

Hi,

24 messages 2002/06/28

[#43174] eruby SAFE question — Dylan Northrup <docx@...>

I'm trying to implement a replacement for the standard apache file listings

39 messages 2002/06/28
[#43249] documentation licenses (was: eruby SAFE question) — Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...> 2002/06/30

Dave Thomas wrote:

[#43250] Re: documentation licenses (was: eruby SAFE question) — Dave Thomas <Dave@...> 2002/06/30

Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com> writes:

[#43255] RE: documentation licenses (was: eruby SAFE question) — <james@...> 2002/06/30

>

[#43280] Re: documentation licenses (was: eruby SAFE question) — "Juergen Katins" <juergen.katins@...> 2002/07/01

Tobias Reif wrote

[#43282] Re: documentation licenses (was: eruby SAFE question) — David Alan Black <dblack@...> 2002/07/01

On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Juergen Katins wrote:

[#43381] RE: documentation licenses (was: eruby SAFE question) — <james@...> 2002/07/02

> From: David Alan Black [mailto:dblack@candle.superlink.net]

Re: Are Unix tools just slow? (OT)

From: Kyle Rawlins <rawlins@...>
Date: 2002-06-16 18:22:24 UTC
List: ruby-talk #42579
On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 01:26:11PM +0900, Daniel P. Zepeda wrote:
> I think we're talking about apples and oranges here. Your code walks the
> entire filesystem tree in two tenths of a second? I think not.

Indeed.  For my whole system of 280533 files and 17820 (approx 35GB)
directories 0.2 seconds works out to be about 700ns per file, or 11000ns
(.011ms) per directory, whichever way you want to count.  This seems really
quick in terms of IO, where my guess would be that at the least 25% of the
accesses would be not cached and not contiguous to any other accesses happe=
ning
around the same time.  Not to mention overhead of each OS call (esp if
something else is going on on the system), permissions checking on every fi=
le
you access, etc. =20

Even if my collective hd space is larger than the one the original poster w=
as
talking about, the numbers for it seem pretty reasonable for today's comput=
er
users, so I'm taking 200ms as a number that is desirable, rather than one t=
hat
was actually gotten on my system.

'time find / > /dev/null' on all of this takes about 3sec after running it =
once
and probably a minute or so (I didn't really time it) when I haven't run it
recently.  Sure both could be optimised down perhaps as much as an order of
magnitude, but then you have some specialized tool that does really quick i=
node
walks, not anything particularly useful to the world.  Find is meant to be
useful to the world.  So perhaps it is a performance tradeoff; generality vs
efficiency.

I personally don't think it loses much.  Anyone wanting to quickly get this
sort of information (a complete list of every file on the hd) on a regular
basis should either cache it and update the cache every night or hour or
whatever (a la locate/updatedb), accept the penalty of having your entire
directory structure cached all the time, or wait 10 years and hope that file
counts/fs complexity don't scale up with IO speed.

-kyle

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