Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!bionet!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!leah!rpi!crdgw1!crdgw1.ge.com!barnett From: barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: file statictics Message-ID: <964@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Date: 23 Jun 89 16:42:17 GMT References: <19976@adm.BRL.MIL> <8800021@gistdev> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 29 In-reply-to: flint@gistdev.UUCP Guy Harris writes ... It would be interesting to see the distribution of file name lengths on a BSD system (where the limit is probably essentially infinite for all but the most perverse user or application), to see if there's a bend in the curve suggesting a lower maximum length, and then see how a fixed-length-entry scheme supporting that maximum length does vs. the BSD scheme. As a somewhat atypical user, here is a shortened version of our usage: 10 18751 7.18% 129239 49.52% 20 4641 1.78% 215141 82.44% 24 6600 2.53% 233930 89.64% 30 1711 0.66% 246614 94.50% 35 1787 0.68% 255721 97.99% 40 480 0.18% 259722 99.52% 45 117 0.04% 260771 99.92% 50 16 0.01% 260921 99.98% 55 1 0.00% 260964 99.99% 60 2 0.00% 260976 100.00% 65 0 0.00% 260978 100.00% 69 1 0.00% 260979 100.00% -- Bruce G. Barnett a.k.a. uunet!crdgw1.ge.com!barnett barnett@crdgw1.UUCP