On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 01:15:51PM -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote: > I just tried creating 150,000 directories in a ZFS roto directory. It > was speedy. Listing individual directories (lookup) is fast.
Glad to hear that it's working well for you! > Listing the large directory isn't, but that turns out to be either > terminal I/O or collation in a UTF-8 locale (which is what I use; a > simple DTrace script showed that to be my problem): > > % ptime ls > ... > > real 9.850 > user 6.263 <- ouch, UTF-8 hurts > sys 0.245 Yep, beware of using 'ls' on large directories! See also: 6299769 'ls' memory usage is excessive 6299767 'ls -f' should not buffer output --matt _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
