I get that, but it ran out of ram on a machine with 2gb of ram. Even if there were 10 million things to keep track of, that's 200 bytes per thing! If we're tal

I get that, but it ran out of ram on a machine with 2gb of ram. Even if there were 10 million things to keep track of, that's 200 bytes per thing! If we're talking about a file system with 100,000 files, that's 20 kb of metadata per file. Actually, more than that because it exhausted the ram. Those numbers just don't add up.