Re: Severe VFS Performance Issues 2.6 with > 95000 directory entries

Douglas McNaught
2005-11-13T21:51:14Z

jmerkey <jmerkey@soleranetworks.com> writes:

> Nikita Danilov wrote:
>
>>Jeff V. Merkey writes:
>> > > The subject line speaks for itself. This is using standard VFS
>> readdir > and lookup calls through the VFSwith ftp. Very poor.
>>
>>Reiser4 works fine with 100M entries in a directory, so VFS is not a
>>bottleneck here.
>>
>>
>
> how about with ftp running on top? Try running FTP in directory with
> 100M entries. See how long it takes to return the data to
> the remote client for a dir listing.

What filesystem are you using? If it's ext3 without dirindex turned
on, that would definitely explain it.

-Doug