Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Jul 2004 12:42:18 +0100 | From | Nigel Rantor <> | Subject | Re: stat very inefficient |
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David S. Miller wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 17:08:37 -0700 > Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org> wrote: > > >>Just How bad is it for you? I just tested stat on my crapbox and for >>a short path 1M stats takes 0.5s and for a longer path (30 bytes or >>so) 2.8s. > > > Run "time find . -type f" on the kernel tree, both before and > after removing the third unnecessary copy. Many machines sit all > day and stat files.
P2 350MHz 256Mb RAM circa 1998
bash$ time find . -type f
gives
real 0m16.142s user 0m0.432s sys 0m2.893s
I'd be interested to see what machine you have that takes all day.
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