From: Alexander Kellett <ruby-lists@...>
Date: 2004-02-14T21:38:00+09:00
Subject: Re: slow IO

On Saturday 14 February 2004 09:49, nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At Sat, 14 Feb 2004 03:55:05 +0900,
>
> David King Landrith wrote in [ruby-talk:92806]:
> > We're using Redhat's most recent linux (on a Dual Athlon with 2GB RAM).
>
> On what filesystem did you execute it?  EXT[23]-fs is not
> efficient for a huge directory.

with htree its perfectly fine. try a tune2fs

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