Is there any way to speed up the du command? I mean short of having cron run it on target directories and store results. (not really speeding up but at least not having to wait for a result)
I've seen various mention of du being slow but don't recall any mentions of how to speed it up. I use Reiserfs with default sizes. In some situations like a large cache of nntp messages of several GB. I might wait 5-10 minutes or more for du to get the size of the directory. Are there other file systems that can return a result of `du' faster? I'm curious how `df' computes sizes so much quicker. Even after rm'ing a large amount of data... `df' sees the difference right away. Or maybe there is some other tool or technique that can quickly tell me the size of a directory or set of directories. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
