Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 11:09:52 -0800 From: Totem <totem-lists@totem.is-a-geek.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Slow directory access with lots of files Message-ID: <41EC0D80.8090403@totem.is-a-geek.com>
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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? Here is my OS version: # uname -a FreeBSD server.example.com 5.2.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Feb 23 20:45:55 GMT 2004 root@wv1u.btc.adaptec.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Here is some of the software used by the users to access files (installed via ports): samba-3.0.4,1 nss_ldap-1.204_5 openldap-server-2.1.30 (plenty of others) I'm using POSIX ACL's on the files/directories that are slow. User account information is stored in LDAP. The server is a fast enough, uses RAID 5 w/ SCSI drives, and there is plenty of RAM. Utilization is fairly low so I don't think it is a HW problem. I'm going to update the OS and ports on this server soon. Perhaps that will help, but I'm not too hopeful. Any thoughts? Thanks, Totem
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