Re: WC on Linux question

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2001


It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = Hi Jeroen,Thanks for the reply. I would be creating the 10,000 directories one time only. The additional ones would be at a rate of maybe a few hundred per day, all done one at a time as new users signup.Thanks for the heads up!Daleon 11/23/2001 4:36 PM, Jeroen de Wijn at jdewijn@tobeone.nl wrote:> There is no limit in Linux. > > If there is, I have not stubled upon it and it is not documented. > > As far as Webcat is concerned, smart scripting would be in order, chopping > down the actions in sizeable chunks. Otherwise you might very well have > problems with timeouts and/or excessive lenghth of operation. > At 11:39 AM 11/23/01, you wrote: >> Hello, >> >> When my new servers get here I will be moving from Mac OS to Linux. I know >> on Mac OS it is not a smart idea to put thousands and thousands of files in >> the same directory. >> >> I have an idea to convert a large number of searches on my existing site to >> static html pages that get written whenever hat specific data has changed. >> This would require creating initially about 10,000 directories all in the >> same folder (and hopefully 10's of thousands more soon). >> >> Does anyone know if having say 50,000 directories within a single directory >> is a problem for Linux? >> >> E.g. >> >> /users/username1/ >> /users/username2/ >> /users/username3/ >> /users/username4/ >> /users/username5/ >> /users/username6/ >> >> And most importantly, would WC 4.x have a problem manipulating them? WC >> would be responsible for creating/deleting folders and the content within >> each folder. The user folders would have normal amounts of files, say >> between 3-30. >> >> Thanks >> >> Dale >> ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
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  7. Re: WC on Linux question (Jeroen de Wijn 2001)
  8. WC on Linux question (dale 2001)
Hi Jeroen,Thanks for the reply. I would be creating the 10,000 directories one time only. The additional ones would be at a rate of maybe a few hundred per day, all done one at a time as new users signup.Thanks for the heads up!Daleon 11/23/2001 4:36 PM, Jeroen de Wijn at jdewijn@tobeone.nl wrote:> There is no limit in Linux. > > If there is, I have not stubled upon it and it is not documented. > > As far as Webcat is concerned, smart scripting would be in order, chopping > down the actions in sizeable chunks. Otherwise you might very well have > problems with timeouts and/or excessive lenghth of operation. > At 11:39 AM 11/23/01, you wrote: >> Hello, >> >> When my new servers get here I will be moving from Mac OS to Linux. I know >> on Mac OS it is not a smart idea to put thousands and thousands of files in >> the same directory. >> >> I have an idea to convert a large number of searches on my existing site to >> static html pages that get written whenever hat specific data has changed. >> This would require creating initially about 10,000 directories all in the >> same folder (and hopefully 10's of thousands more soon). >> >> Does anyone know if having say 50,000 directories within a single directory >> is a problem for Linux? >> >> E.g. >> >> /users/username1/ >> /users/username2/ >> /users/username3/ >> /users/username4/ >> /users/username5/ >> /users/username6/ >> >> And most importantly, would WC 4.x have a problem manipulating them? WC >> would be responsible for creating/deleting folders and the content within >> each folder. The user folders would have normal amounts of files, say >> between 3-30. >> >> Thanks >> >> Dale >> ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ dale

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