Re: stat very inefficient

David S. Miller
2004-07-29T00:20:29Z

On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 17:08:37 -0700
Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org> wrote:

> Just How bad is it for you? I just tested stat on my crapbox and for
> a short path 1M stats takes 0.5s and for a longer path (30 bytes or
> so) 2.8s.

Run "time find . -type f" on the kernel tree, both before and
after removing the third unnecessary copy. Many machines sit all
day and stat files.