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From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Subject: Re: slow stat() ?
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 12:57:34 -0500
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On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 12:43, David Bernick wrote:
> > My guess is the stats are being done across a large directory tree and
> > this is generating lots of atime updates.  You could mount -o
> > noatime,nodiratime, which will reduce the amount of work reiserfs does
> > on each stat.
> 
> thanks for the quick response. i'll try this tonight and report back. i
> totally didn't even think of doing that. that really might help a great
> deal.
> 
> Any other suggestions? 

The profile results would really allow us to pinpoint the problem.

-chris