[plug] evil performance on large directories.

[Craig Ringer]

On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 15:58 +0800, Shayne O'Neill wrote:
> Appletalk is uselesss. ls on the server is useless (a few minutes to
> return on large directories). etc.

Does `find . -maxdepth 1' respond promptly? It does here, even on a
*giant* directory (maildir-style mail folder with 10k messages in it)
where ls takes nearly 30 seconds to read, sort and format its output (on
a dual Xeon).

AppleTalk does take a few seconds to read a 400-entry directory at work
on the MacOS/9 machines. The MacOS/X machines seem much snappier.

-- 
Craig Ringer