Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: Severe VFS Performance Issues 2.6 with > 95000 directory entries | | From | Douglas McNaught <> | | Date | Sun, 13 Nov 2005 16:50:56 -0500 |
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jmerkey <jmerkey@soleranetworks.com> writes:
> Nikita Danilov wrote: > >>Jeff V. Merkey writes: >> > > The subject line speaks for itself. This is using standard VFS >> readdir > and lookup calls through the VFSwith ftp. Very poor. >> >>Reiser4 works fine with 100M entries in a directory, so VFS is not a >>bottleneck here. >> >> > > how about with ftp running on top? Try running FTP in directory with > 100M entries. See how long it takes to return the data to > the remote client for a dir listing.
What filesystem are you using? If it's ext3 without dirindex turned on, that would definitely explain it.
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