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From: |
James Youngman |
Subject: |
[Findutils-patches] [PATCH 4/4] Describe recent memory savings on very large directories. |
Date: |
Sun, 21 Aug 2011 00:10:20 +0100 |
* NEWS: Describe the recent changes which reduce the amount of
heap memory used in processing directories containing very many
entries.
---
ChangeLog | 5 +++++
NEWS | 10 ++++++++++
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 9d5025b..8c54aad 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
2011-08-20 James Youngman <address@hidden>
+ Describe recent memory savings on very large directories.
+ * NEWS: Describe the recent changes which reduce the amount of
+ heap memory used in processing directories containing very many
+ entries.
+
Remove no-longer-used files savedir.[ch].
* lib/savedirinfo.c: delete unused file.
* lib/savedirinfo.h: delete unused file.
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 2f031d4..7828704 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ installed, whichever is appropriate.
** Bug Fixes
+#34079: Apply gnulib ftw memory fix
+
#33384: If rm/chmod etc. are not in /bin or /usr/bin, updatedb fails
#18227: find -ls does not display device major/minor numbers.
@@ -51,6 +53,14 @@ last match found in this file, rather than the first, to
better deal
with implementations which have duplicate entries (for example
/proc/mounts on systems running the Linux kernel).
+Both oldfind and ftsfind now use less heap memory when processing
+directories containing very many files. However, oldfind now uses one
+file descriptor per recurisive subdirectory level, which will further
+limit the depth of directory trees it can search. If you need find to
+be able to search deep directory trees, use ftsfind (this is, by
+default the binary built and installed as 'find').
+
+
* Major changes in release 4.5.10, 2011-05-11
** Documentation Changes
--
1.7.2.5
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