From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 17 23:30:08 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27C1116A4D2 for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 23:30:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from relay2.mail.cyrk.com (relay2.mail.cyrk.com [4.21.167.234]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D32ED43D46 for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 23:30:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from totem-lists@totem.is-a-geek.com) Received: from out2.nospam.cyrk.com (out2.nospam.cyrk.com [172.16.2.37]) by relay2.mail.cyrk.com (Mail Daemon) with ESMTP id B686B4B7E0 for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 13:47:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from totem.is-a-geek.com ([172.16.5.50]) by out2.nospam.cyrk.com (Mail Daemon) with ESMTP; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 15:30:07 -0800 Message-ID: <41EC4A7E.3020704@totem.is-a-geek.com> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 15:30:06 -0800 From: Totem User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (X11/20040902) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <41EC0D80.8090403@totem.is-a-geek.com> <20050117191343.GA79136@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20050117191343.GA79136@xor.obsecurity.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mlf-Reason: rules:hdrs Subject: Re: Slow directory access with lots of files X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: totem@totem.is-a-geek.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 23:30:08 -0000 Kris Kennaway wrote: >On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 11:09:52AM -0800, Totem wrote: > > >>Hello, >> >>I'm new to this list so please excuse me if this has been asked before >>or if I don't provide enough info. >> >>I'm having an issue and I hope someone can help me understand what is >>happening. I have a FreeBSD server that is running Samba. When users >>access directories that store lots of files (3k or so), access to the >>files is very slow. I'm guessing that it is a file system issue. I'd >>like to troubleshoot the problem but I don't know where to start. (In >>the mean time I have just told the users to create sub-directories and >>sort their files). Is there anything that I can do to make things run >>faster? >> >> > >Do you have UFS_DIRHASH in your kernel? If you don't, or if you added >it after the disk was already populated, you'll see the benefits if >you dump, wipe and restore the disk. > >Also try updating to 5.3, which is much better than the 5.2.1 >developers preview release. > >Kris > I will upgrade to 5.3 in the next few days and I will investigate how to use UFS_DIRHASH. Thanks for the help. Totem