On Sun, 2011-08-21 at 14:07 -0700, Matt Graham wrote: > From: Dennis Kibbe > > On Sun, 2011-08-21 at 12:57 -0700, Nathan England wrote: > >> I have a hard drive that I use for storing and working with large tar > >> archives. It seems that after a few months of working with these > >> archives, unpacking, making modifications and tarring them back up, > >> the whole system will get very slow, but particularly this drive. > > >> Currently, this is an ext4 partition. I do not believe this ever > >> happened with an ext3 partition > > Are all the files in one directory? I made the mistake of putting a few > > thousand image files in one directory. It slowed access to a crawl. > > This seems kind of odd. Back from 2002..2006, we had an ext3 partition with > many directories, and many of those directories had well over 10,000 files in > them. Most of these files were less than 100K. Disk I/O was quite fast, and > we never really had any problems at all with having so many files in one > directory, even with a few really huge dirs that had over 400,000 files in > them. Did they mess something up with ext4? > > Also, isn't there a mailing list for ext4 somewhere? I'm sure they'd love to > hear about this here problem if it can be reproduced.... > Actually I take back my comment. It wasn't the file system that was slow but rendering all the thumbnails each time the directory was opened in Nautilus, etc. Dennis Kibbe -- Adjunct Faculty Linux Operating System and System Administration Business and Information Systems Mesa Community College, Mesa, Arizona --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss