will a lot of temp files harm hard disk performance?

[Jacob Delfos]

Fu,

It should probably be alright, as long as you don't try to run a virus scan over it, or something. You're probably best off deleting the files automatically using a process started every day. There should be quite a bit of documentation on that (and previous e-mails to the list). Let me know if you can't figure it out.

To give you some idea, our servers often has 10s of thousands of files, and you don't notice any change in performance. Other users probably have millions.

Regards,

Jacob


-----Original Message-----
From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On Behalf Of Fu Chen
Sent: 24 August 2004 12:44
To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] will a lot of temp files harm hard disk performance?


Hi!
Use mapserver will leave a lot of temp files in the file system. What's more they are saved at the same directory.
I wonder whether this design will make hard disk low performance?
Any idea?

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