Posted by The Natural Philosopher on 01/09/08 09:01

jodleren wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have a system, which reads in the entire tree - all files. As of
> now, there are 1312 folders to read.
>
> 1st time it takes 53-60 seconds to read. The data is somehow cached,
> 2nd time time is takes 2-3 seconds.
>
> Is there a way to "cache" data beforehand? Like "preparing" the
> directory....?
>

Before what? Before you read them?

Bit of a logical impasse there ;-)

If its *nix, you might execute a cron script every few minutes and read
the whole directory structure, which will bring it into the disk file cache.

Of course under heavy I/O load that caching may get flushed again..






> WBR
> Sonnich

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