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Date:      Thu, 27 Sep 2001 14:12:26 -0700
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@vicor-nb.com>
To:        Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: RFC: mod for 'du'
Message-ID:  <3BB3963A.D714606@vicor-nb.com>
References:  <3BB3936A.D1E1F6B3@vicor-nb.com> <20010927230639.A97964@freebie.xs4all.nl>

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Wilko Bulte wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 02:00:26PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
> > 'du' keeps an array of files it has encountered that have > 1 link.
> > Whenever it encounters another, it checks to see if it's one it has
> > already seen
> > and thus can avoid counting its space twice..
> >
> > This is ok for small filesystems, however VICOR maintains
> > 500GB filesystems on which much of the data has several links.
> >
> > The following patch to replace the linear array (which it realocs if too
> > small)
> > (which it scans linearly) with a hash-table can makle a DRASTIC change
> > to how DU perfomrs for us in this environment.
> >
> > In a small test, we made a linked copy of /usr/src
> >
> > the run times were:
> > old: 0.410u 2.221s 1:55.41 2.2%      12+1355k 6325+0io 2pf+0w
> > new: 8.610u 2.665s 2:09.23 8.7%      10+718k 6367+0io 2pf+0
> 
> swap(old,new) I suppose?


uh.... 
yeah


> 
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> |   / o / /_  _                 email:  wilko@FreeBSD.org
> |/|/ / / /(  (_)  Bulte         Arnhem, The Netherlands

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