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From: blgardne@esunix.UUCP (Blaine Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Zoo problems (disk thrashing)
Message-ID: <1210@esunix.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jan 89 03:25:45 GMT
References: <23314@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
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From article <23314@watmath.waterloo.edu>, by grwalter@watmath.waterloo.edu (Fred Walter):
> In article <171@hhb.UUCP> bvk@hhb.UUCP (Brett Kuehner) writes:
>>Is this when your zoo archive is in a directory with a lot of files in it? I
>>have a directory on my HD with about 50 files in it. If I do a
>>"zoo l foo.zoo", where foo.zoo is in that directory, zoo appears to thrash
>>on the drive a lot, possibly reading in the name of each file in the
>>HD directory (and very slowly). It will eventually list the archive, though.
> 
> Yes this is what happens with me. I never before waited to see how long it
> would take for a listing to appear (1 MINUTE 26 SECONDS in a directory with
> 93 files in it).

I just did a little testing and Zoo does filename expansion whether you
ask it to or not. 

Zoo v ami

is treated just the same as

Zoo v ami*

So if you have your zoo file in a directory with a lot of entries (120
in my case) it will take a while to find the right file. It takes
between 7 and 10 seconds on my hard drive (with 200 buffers), I can
imagine how slow this would be on floppies.


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