On 8/23/05, John1 <suppressed> wrote: > At the moment we have all our item images in a single directory (and all the > thumbnails in one directory). There are currently only about 1000 items, > but this could increase significantly as time goes on (especially as we tend > to leave any images of old discontinued products there just in case search > engines etc still have them catalogued). > > We run the Linux ext3 filing system. Is there a performance hit from > storing loads of files in a single directory? I am sure I read somewhere > once that there *is* a performance hit, but I have no idea how many image > files we would need to store in one directory before the performance > implications became significant, bearing in mind that each page loads > between 10 and 20 images from the thumbnails directory and 1 image from the > main items directory? > > Please can anyone enlighten me on this? Thanks. Good discussion at http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=122241 Jeff _______________________________________________ interchange-users mailing list suppressed http://www.icdevgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/interchange-users
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