On 8/2/11 9:39 AM, seanr...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi there, > > I Googled around and checked the PRs and wasn't successful in finding > any reports of what I'm seeing. I'm hoping someone here can help me > debug what's going on. > > On my FreeBSD 8.2-S machine (built circa 12th June), I created a > directory and populated it over the course of 3 weeks with about 2 > million individual files. As you might imagine, a 'ls' of this > directory took quite some time. > > The files were conveniently named with a timestamp in the filename > (still images from a security camera, once per second) so I've since > moved them all to timestamped directories (yyyy/MM/dd/hh/mm). What I > found though was the original directory the images were in is still > very slow to ls -- and it only has 1 file in it, another directory. >
While not addressing your original question, which many people have already, I'll toss in the following: I do hope you've disabled access times on your ZFS dataset ? zfs set atime=off YOUR_DATASET/supercamera/captures _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
