 from brent welch welch panasas com date wed NUMBER aug NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER robert elz said mh_sequence also goes and rereads the files mh_sequences and the context file but i m not sure how frequently that one is called in some places i maintain caches of files by checking their modify time but the sequence files are soo small that by the time you stat them to check their date stamp you could just read them again do you really think this is true i added a modify time check thinking that it would make an improvement since we were reading it a lot more times in the new code because we re trying to use the sequences on the other hand the sequences files are probably being read out of cache when that happens anyway even with a small file i d think that the time taken to do a file mtime filename would be worth it my code is in proc mhreadseqs chris chris garrigues URL vircio URL NUMBER congress suite NUMBER austin tx NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER world war iii the wrong doers vs the evil doers 