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Aduke.1251 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!duke!trt Fri Oct 16 15:21:13 1981 uucp speedup ***Note: this article was mailed to ucbvax!unix-wizards, but as ARPA unix-wizards news does not seem to be working, it is also being broadcast "directly" (i.e. normally). *** ----- A while back we proposed "C" and "D" subdirectories of /usr/spool/uucp to keep directory sizes down and hopefully speed things up. Well, we went ahead and tried it, and it indeed speeds things up ALOT at duke. There are three directories: "D.duke", "D." (other D files), and "C.". None of them are "large" files (yet), and /usr/spool/uucp itself is less than 1 kbytes! Most importantly, uucp runs reasonable quickly, even when communicating with several systems at once.

The change is pretty simple (and kludgy). The files which describe and implement the change are available as duke!~uucp/uudir.pdp.tar and duke!~uucp/uudir.vax.tar. The files are also probably in decvax!~uucp/. Good hunting! Tom Truscott (duke!trt)

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