July 1, 2001
5:23 p.m.
SO... by increasing conf-split to 97 (from the default of 20 something afaik), each directory ends up only having a hundred or so files. Doing "ls" now is far speedier.
Maybe you want to use a different filesystem - ext2fs uses linear lists for directories (slow lookups in large directories) but XFS and JFS use B+Trees - they are a hell faster when operating with thousands of files in a directory.