From: Kirk Haines <khaines@...>
Date: 2004-02-14T23:45:13+09:00
Subject: Re: slow IO

On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:

> 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.

Yes.  If you have a partition that you can do it on (or you can put 
another drive into the machine to make one), try a reiserfs partition for 
your data and see if that changes your results in a positive way.


Kirk Haines