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by rick_b

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I recently had to reboot several of my Netware servers. I noticed that two of them took an extremly long time at the Scanning the Directories prompt in the load. The other two loaded fine. What is causing this slowdown. The scan took about 5 mins on1 server and about 3 mins on the other.I run all 4 of the servers seperatley,each server has its own NDS tree due to logistics.
I would appreciate anyones thoughts on this

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by jimbb

It's not really directories, but directory blocks it scans. A directory block contains info about a file or a directory, not the data itself. Probably those "slow" volumes have lots of files, or a more complex directory structure than the others.You can reduce this by reducing the number of files and directories. And that you can often achieve by doing a purge, since the deleted files and directories are concuming blocks too. Suppose applications create and delete temp files on those volumes, you can imagine that heaps of small deleted files could have a serious impact on the mounting time. Want to know how much directory blocks and deleted files there are on your volumes? Check Monitor|Volumes in NW5, or try NDIR /VOL, Filer, or the properties of a volume in Win Explorer.

Jim

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