Messages in this thread | | | Subject | FAT bug in 2.2.10-ac8(was slocate never finishes in ..) | Date | Mon, 5 Jul 1999 23:53:29 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> I switch to 2.2.10-ac8 (RH 6.0) last night and saw that the slocate > cron run every night was still active, consuming 100% CPU. > > I straced it : it repeatadly run through the following two loops : > > /* 29 entries */, 15729) = 620 > lseek(4, 0, SEEK_SET) = 0 > lseek(4, 0, SEEK_CUR) = 0 > getdents(4, 0 632 > 12 632 > 28 632 > 52 632
Interesting. 2.2.10ac8 has Al Viro's updates for FAT/VFAT including the directory pointer caching, so that it should break here is very believable
If I get time I'll revert you just the directory pointer caching for the next 2.2.10ac
Alan
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