[SLL] limit on number of files in a directory and hashed dir vs. flat dir file access time

[Andrew Sweger]

On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Ana wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 05:19:04PM -0700, Andrew Sweger wrote:
> > 
> > Any chance your program would block on disk-io from another process?
> > Running in single-user mode?
> 
> Do you think updatedb could gum things up for that long?

Certainly. You don't even have to have any significant "servers" running
to hit disk waits (the type of hardware can have a big impact on the
chance of hitting them too). Running several test runs without any
significant background tasks will be best to get useful numbers
(given/assuming a valid test algorithm that tests the hypothesis).

-- 
Andrew B. Sweger -- The great thing about multitasking is that several
                                things can go wrong at once.