Re: [cobalt-developers] help!

[Paul Gillingwater <paul@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting Tim <tnp3@xxxxxxxxx>:
> I have a RAQ 3 and it is very slow, mainly in the
> downloading of images (10,000+). FTP uploading, Telnet
> and email are ok. CGI processes is a bit slow also.

When you have more than 10,000 images in a single directory, it can add a lot 
of time to the rewriting and reading if any changes are made to files in that 
directory, as the directory inode has to be frequently rewritten and parsed.  
(I'm assuming this is the case, but it might not be.)  If it is, then you can 
use a method like Squid does, whereby you hash the image name and store it in a 
subdirectory, that reduces the file count per directory inode.

Alternatively, and this is becoming increasingly popular, serve the images 
directly from a database.  PostGreSQL or MySQL are fine for this purpose.

cheers,
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