Re: creating 2.5GB share list takes about 5 minutes

> Reply to 20050102195102.43d761cb.h.sokolowski <at> wsisiz.edu.pl
> Sent: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 19:51:02 +0100
>
> Hubert wrote:
>> On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 20:36:52 +0200
>> ghrt <ghrt <at> dial.kappa.ro> wrote:
>>
>> > Pe data de Dum 02 Ian 2005 20:16, Hubert Sokołowski a scris:
>> > > Hi!
>> > >
>> > > I share some mp3s,movies and some apps. everything takes about
>> > > 2.5GB. it takes for valknut to recreate a share filelist about 5
>> > > minutes and my hard disk is used very intesively. the number of
>> > > files is about 100. is it normal? I tried using option disable
>> > > hash list but no difference. my system is AMD Athlon XP 2600+,
>> > > 256MB of RAM, hard disk is 5400 rpm, DMA for hard disk is on.
>> >
>> > pretty normal. the number of files matter, not size. CPU is heavily
>> > used when computing hashes. it seems that valknut is using hashes
>> > even if you disable "use hash list" (0.3.3).
>> > keep the same files in the share so you won't have to recreate
>> > filelist too often.
>>
>> I removed a directory with windows apps (only installable exe files)
>> and now the problem is solved, recreating share list takes about 3
>> seconds. I removed only about 20 files from my share list. it looks
>> like not only number of files matter but also its type.
>
> I can't see why computing a hash on a .exe file would be any different
> from any other type of file. Are these files stored on a windows