Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 15:30:06 -0800 From: Totem <totem-lists@totem.is-a-geek.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Slow directory access with lots of files Message-ID: <41EC4A7E.3020704@totem.is-a-geek.com> In-Reply-To: <20050117191343.GA79136@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <41EC0D80.8090403@totem.is-a-geek.com> <20050117191343.GA79136@xor.obsecurity.org>
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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
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