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Eindbaas
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 Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 11:44 pm Post subject: Lots of cachefiles, a problem? |
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| Well, that's basically the question. Are there any drawbacks for having tenthousands of cachefiles (assuming there's enough space on the hd). |
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mohrt
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| Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 2:25 pm Post subject: |
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The only drawbacks would be the speed of your file system, and how quickly it can find a file within a directory.
If you are in unix, you can write a cron to clean up caches that have not been accessed in awhile.
| Code: | # remove all cache files stale for five days or more
find /path/to/cache_dir/. -type f -atime +5 -exec rm -f {} \; |
reiserfs and xfs are very fast at directory scans, and do not have the limitation that of ext2:
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The limit of ext2 sublevel-directories is about 32768. If the number of files in a directory exceeds 10000 to 15000 files, the user will normally be warned that operations can last for a long time. The actual limit of the number of files in a directory is very theoretical, because before reaching the limit of 1.3 × 10^20 files it will become hard to find new well-defined file names. |
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Eindbaas
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| Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 4:09 pm Post subject: |
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| mohrt wrote: | | The only drawbacks would be the speed of your file system, and how quickly it can find a file within a directory. |
But does that speed change when there are more files in the directory? All i ever do there is check whether a certain file (with a certain cache_id) was cached (using is_cached) and let smarty display it. |
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mohrt
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| Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 7:00 pm Post subject: |
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The speed is going to be determined by your filesystem's ability to scan a directory for files. Typically this is going to be negligible, but if your file cache grows to 10,000+ files and you have a high traffic website, the performance could become an issue. About the best bet is to benchmark yourself, as every environment is going to be different.
My very general rule of thumb (not tested): if you have more than 10k of cache files, turn on $smarty->use_sub_dirs. That will really help break down the number of files per directory. |
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