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A comment on One Billion Files: Scalability Limits in Linux File Systems (2010) [pdf]. Parent comment

Re:One Billion Files: Scalability Limits in Linux File Syste... by technion on Thursday April 07, 2016 @12:14AM (#11444667)
I've run into this in production with PHP session files in /tmp. At a certain amount, just running "ls" would hang your process until you killed it.
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Re:One Billion Files: Scalability Limits in Linux File Syste... by tyingq on Thursday April 07, 2016 @06:33PM (#11451235)
PHP does have a config setting that will spread them across subdirectories.

See: http://php.net/manual/en/session.configuration.php#ini.sessi...

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Re:One Billion Files: Scalability Limits in Linux File Syste... by technion on Thursday April 07, 2016 @10:03PM (#11452134)
Yeah, this is more an experience related to be called in after the fact. Which has been fairly recurrent for me.
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