Overview Buffers just keep on growing...

[Russ Allbery]

Jeffrey M Vinocur <jeff at litech.org> writes:

> I don't think that's your problem.  I think a fair number of people keep
> their local hierarchies on infinite retention without much problem.
> (Although Russ switched from tradspool to timehash for the largest
> group, as I recall, to avoid too many files in one directory.)

Note that this was in part due to Solaris UFS issues.  Solaris has serious
problems with performance in directories with more than 20,000 files in
them.  If I were using ext2 or XFS, I probably wouldn't have bothered
switching.

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