From: David King Landrith Date: 2004-02-15T18:10:37+09:00 Subject: Re: slow IO We're using Reiserfs already. On Feb 14, 2004, at 9:45 AM, Kirk Haines wrote: > 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 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- David King Landrith (w) 617.227.4469x213 (h) 617.696.7133 Generic quotes offend nobody. --Unknown ------------------------------------------------------- public key available upon request