Interesting. heh - I was piping to tail -10, so output rate was not an issue.
That being said, there is a large delta in your results and mine... If I get a chance, I'll look into it... I suspect it's a cached versus I/O issue... Nathan. On 1/10/08 10:02 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > 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/ > -- ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // Nathan Kroenert [EMAIL PROTECTED] // // Senior Systems Engineer Phone: +61 3 9869 6255 // // Global Systems Engineering Fax: +61 3 9869 6288 // // Level 7, 476 St. Kilda Road // // Melbourne 3004 Victoria Australia // ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
