Long Startup times and Directory Structure

Ralf Hildebrandt R.Hildebrandt at tu-bs.de
Wed Jul 5 13:42:34 UTC 2000


On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 02:35:36PM +0100, Karl Pielorz wrote:

> The nameserver takes around a minute to startup - if I use a better directory
> structure (e.g. by filing 'mydomain.com' under 'm/y/d/mydomain.com' - Is this
> likely to cutdown the startup time? - Dramatically?

I would think so. The time needed to find files in the directory should
decrease dramatically.
 
> We do have to reload the nameserver quite often as we make config changes etc.
> - so I was just wondering if making this change would be worth the effort
> (apart from keeping the number of files in a single directory down).

It's a good idea: Postfix does it, Squid does it, so why shouldn't you?
> 



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