From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Isaacson Subject: Re: btrfs: 21 minutes to read 1.2M file directory Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 12:39:15 -0800 Message-ID: <20101222203915.GA9918@hexapodia.org> References: <20101220222446.GA8629@hexapodia.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org To: Felipe Contreras Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-ID: On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 03:07:33AM +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote: > On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Andy Isaacson wrote: > > I have a directory with 1.2M files in it, which makes readdir very slow > > on btrfs with cold caches (although it's reasonably fast with hot caches > > as in the first example below): > > Sounds like: > > Bug 21562 - btrfs is dead slow due to fragmentation > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21562 Hmmm, how do I look at the btree layout for a given inode? btrfs-image for this filesystem is 1.7GiB .bz2, so I'm afraid it's not reasonable to publish it. -andy