On Wed, 1 Oct 2008, Nathan Kroenert wrote: > zillion I/O's you need to deal with each time you list the entire directory. > > an ls -1rt on a directory with about 1.2 million files with names like > afile1202899 takes minutes to complete on my box, and we see 'ls' get to > in excess of 700MB rss... (and that's not including the memory zfs is > using to cache whatever it can.)
A million files in ZFS is no big deal: % ptime ls -1rt > /dev/null real 17.277 user 8.992 sys 8.231 % ptime ls -1rt | wc -l real 17.045 user 8.607 sys 8.413 1000000 Maybe the problem is that you need to increase your screen's scroll rate. :-) Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss