From: Paul Louden <paulthenerd_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:06:21 -0600

Frank Gevaerts wrote:
>
> dircache fails (in a non-friendly way IIRC) if you have too many files in
> a directory. That means that turning it on by default will break things
> for some users.
>
> Frank
>
>
Dircache should definitely be enabled by default on disk-based "bigmem"
targets once it's harder to 'kill' with a large number of files. At this
time, though, I think it's better that it just be left off.
Received on 2008-12-16