[windows2000] Re: large number of files in folder, slow lan access
- From: Jim Walls <k6ccc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 08:37:25 -0700
Richard Hopper wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a NT4 server which has a few folders with a fairly large
> number of files. 4000, or 12000 say. Most of the files are fairly small <
> 16K. Browsing through these folders is painfully slow. The server is not
> heavily loaded by any means. Is there anything I can do to improve this.
> The server is a 333Mhz PII with 256meg of ram. with over 180 megs of ram
> available.
Off hand I would think about better organization of the directory structure.
Do you really need to have 12,000 files in the same directory? I can assure
you that if I had to wade through thousands of files in a directory listing to
pick the one I want to work on, that would get old REAL FAST.
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