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Date:      Wed, 19 Aug 2015 11:02:53 +0800
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>
To:        Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>, Freebsd hackers list <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: System briefly freezes every time when a very large UFS directory is filled with files
Message-ID:  <55D3F1DD.6090807@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <55D38A75.6090508@rawbw.com>
References:  <55D38A75.6090508@rawbw.com>

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On 8/19/15 3:41 AM, Yuri wrote:
> I have one directory that has ~1.2M files on UFS system.
> Every time when the process that creates files there reaches a 
> particular point (~0.9M files), system invariably freezes for ~10 
> seconds, after which it continues and process succeeds.
Try increase the size of the directory hash/cache.
>
> I know that this is quite an extreme number of files but, other than 
> this problem, it is usable in this setup.
>
> Maybe someone can think of some fix or the immediate reason of such 
> freezes? This isn't a good problem to have, even in the view of an 
> extremity of this situation.
>
> Yuri
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