From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Neil Brown Subject: Re: Massive slowdown when re-querying large nfs dir - CORRECTION Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 09:01:42 +1100 Message-ID: <18226.13766.77137.149094@notabene.brown> References: <200711050758.38090.a1426z@gawab.com> <20071106221939.cfa79f9e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <18225.26935.146395.366451@notabene.brown> <200711071236.26780.a1426z@gawab.com> <18226.13566.548126.927574@notabene.brown> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Al Boldi , Andrew Morton , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:38200 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754802AbXKGWBv (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Nov 2007 17:01:51 -0500 In-Reply-To: message from Neil Brown on Thursday November 8 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Thursday November 8, neilb@suse.de wrote: > > Not really a credible difference as the reported difference is between > two *clients* and the speed of getattr vs lookup would depend on the > *server*. Sorry, my bad. I misread your original problem description. It would appear to be a server difference. Maybe an "strace -tt" of the nfs server might show some significant difference. NeilBrown