Hi David,
>
> with 15,000 tables you are talking about a LOT of files to hold these
> (30,000 files with one index each and each database being small enough
> to not need more then one file to hold it), on linux ext2/3 this many
> files in one directory will slow you down horribly.
We use ReiserFS, and I don't think that this is causing the problem ...
although it would probably help to split the directory up using tablespaces.
But thanks for the suggestion!