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Date:      Tue, 18 Aug 2015 15:05:02 -0700
From:      Larry Maloney <larry.maloney@hackerdojo.com>
To:        Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>
Cc:        Freebsd hackers list <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: System briefly freezes every time when a very large UFS directory is filled with files
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Could you organize the files into a hierarchy?=20

/Larry
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> On Aug 18, 2015, at 12:41 PM, Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> wrote:
>=20
> I have one directory that has ~1.2M files on UFS system.
> Every time when the process that creates files there reaches a particular p=
oint (~0.9M files), system invariably freezes for ~10 seconds, after which i=
t continues and process succeeds.
>=20
> I know that this is quite an extreme number of files but, other than this p=
roblem, it is usable in this setup.
>=20
> Maybe someone can think of some fix or the immediate reason of such freeze=
s? This isn't a good problem to have, even in the view of an extremity of th=
is situation.
>=20
> Yuri
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