Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:58:58PM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > > Others already mentioned location. I'll just note that 'find' and 'ls > -lR' should have comparable speeds. find's output should be nicer to > parse. > > A single 'find' is normally enough to cache the relevant directories. > Well, you first need to do _one_ find before for both to have the same speed. That's the problem. Locate seems to do what I want. > E.g.: > > real 3m48.317s > user 0m1.568s > sys 0m7.948s > tzafrir@sweetmorn:~$ time find /usr >/dev/null > > real 0m13.977s > user 0m0.772s > sys 0m1.532s > tzafrir@sweetmorn:~$ time find /usr >/dev/null > > real 0m0.956s > user 0m0.332s > sys 0m0.616s > tzafrir@sweetmorn:~$ time find /usr >/dev/null > > real 0m0.968s > user 0m0.372s > sys 0m0.576s > > Actually the second 'find' took way longer than I expected. > > $ free > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 2051620 1965084 86536 0 253852 284188 > -/+ buffers/cache: 1427044 624576 > Swap: 2000968 118404 1882564 > Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. (Oscar Wilde)
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