Re: Directories with 2million files

From: David O'Brien <obrien_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 08:01:20 -0700
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 10:11:04AM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote:
> Doing  'ls -f' works, but still manages to munch up about 260MB of ram, 
> which runs since I have enough, but otherwise would not.

It used 260MB of VM, not physial RAM.  Even with less in your machine, it
would have worked fine -- no one is going to have less than than much
virutal memory (i.e., swap) if they run Netscape on the same machine.

-- 
-- David  (obrien_at_FreeBSD.org)
Received on Thu Apr 22 2004 - 06:01:32 UTC

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