[jcifs] search files by jcifs

[Michael B. Allen]

On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 17:30:18 +0800
HMChung at ITRI.ORG.TW wrote:

> Dear All:
> I have a problem about jcifs libary.
> I try to search files from multi-subdirectories by SmbFile.listFiles() or
> SmbFile.listFiles(wildcard) method.
> If there are many clients to search files from the file server,the reponse
> time is too longer.

This algorithm is pathalogically bad for a "find" function. If you create
an SmbFile[] list and then traverse into it's children recursively (like
you are doing) when the thread makes it back up to the top of the stack
you will have many files with stale attributes which by default will cause
the client to query the server again. That will be very slow. You have to
select an algorithm that never leaves files unprocessed for longer than
jcifs.smb.client.attrExpirationPeriod ms (default 5000 == 5 seconds). Look
at the crawler examples for ways to speed up the algorithm. You can also
test this theory by setting attrExpirationPeriod to something very large
like 1000000. That will make it fast but the resultset may be wrong if
people are actively working on files. Better choose a good BFS algorithm.

Mike

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